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sun?Should yield the tired eyes of man delight,?No sweet beguiling power had stars at night?To soothe his fainting heart when day is done,?Nor any secret voice of benison?Might nature own, were not each sound and sight?The sign and symbol of the infinite,?The prophecy of things not yet begun.?So had these lips, so early sealed with sleep,?No fruitful word, life no power to move?Our deeper reverence, did we not see?How more than all he said, he was,--how, deep?Below this broken life, he ever wove?The finer substance of a life to be.
BY A GRAVE
Oft have I stood within the carven door?Of some cathedral at the close of the day,?And seen its softened splendors fade away?From lucent pane and tessellated floor,?As if a parting guest who comes no more,--?Till over all silence and blackness lay,?Then rose sweet murmurings of them that pray,?And shone the altar lamps unseen before,?So, Dear, as here I stand with thee alone,?The voices of the world sound faint and far,?The glare and glory of the moon grow dim,?And in the stillness, what I had not known,?I know,--a light, pure shining as a star,?A song, uprising like a holy hymn.
DUALITY
Within me are two souls that pity each?The other for the ends they seek, yet smile?Forgiveness, as two friends that love the while?The folly against which each feigns to preach.
And while one barters in the market-place,?Or drains the cup before the tavern fire,?The other, winged with a divine desire,?searches the solitary wastes of space.
And if o'ercome with pleasure this one sleeps,?The other steals away to lay its ear?Upon some lip just cold, perchance to hear?Those wondrous secrets which it knows--and keeps!
LULLABY
O Mary, Mother, if the day we trod?In converse sweet the lily-fields of God,?From earth afar arose a cry of pain,?Would we not weep again??(Sings) Hush, hush, O baby mine,?Mothers twain are surely thine,?One of earth and One divine.
O Mary, Mother, if the day the air?Was sweet with songs celestial, came a prayer?From earth afar and mingled with the strain,?Would we not pray again??(Sings) Sleep, sleep, my baby dear,?Mothers twain are surely near,?One to pray and one to hear.
O Mary, Mother, if, as yesternight?A bird sought shelter at my casement light,?A wounded soul should flutter to thy breast,?Wouldst thou refuse it rest??(Sings) Sleep, darling, peacefully,?Mary, Mother, comforts me;?Christ, her son, hath died for thee.
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