This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...on in pain By thorny bush and jagged rock. VI Oh, weary doubt! Oh, darkness filled with fear! "How long," I cry, "How long will ye abide?" Then comes the dawn and shews Thou hast been near All through the night--and at my side. EASTER DREAMS At Easter morning, ere the light had dawned, Dreaming I woke, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...on in pain By thorny bush and jagged rock. VI Oh, weary doubt! Oh, darkness filled with fear! "How long," I cry, "How long will ye abide?" Then comes the dawn and shews Thou hast been near All through the night--and at my side. EASTER DREAMS At Easter morning, ere the light had dawned, Dreaming I woke, and slept, and dreamed again That Death's long truce was ended and the doom Of all creation come. House after house, In smoke and fire, with one, long echoing roar The city fell. The sky was lifted off, And in the void the Seat of Judgment hung, And I with others mingled, stript of flesh, And like a rack of rainy vapour, streamed Right upward to the gathering-place of souls. Anon the dream grew stiller and I saw A vernal morn awaking, hushed and grey, And lo! the host of them that slept in Christ, With white and shining foreheads, starry-crowned, And wrapt in folds of sweeping raiment rose With silent motion out of green churchyards, Each holding for a symbol in his hand Some Resurrection-flower of Spring. Then shapes Of darkness caught me, and the solid earth Was whirled away beneath me, and I fell Through ever-deepening zones of emerald down To the dark floors of ocean, and beheld The dead in ranks, like Egypt in the gulf, With outstretched fingers groping for the life That somehow o'er them stole; and like the clash Of armour came the sound of meeting bones. Again a change--the hanging water parts And through the narrow rift there gleams far off A space of blue. Therewith I seem to sink Between the vans of angels and am borne, In mighty circles rising, with long flight That hardly seems to move me more than would The beating of a heart. 'Tis not yet morn, The sky is cold and dim, a spectral moon Hangs fading in the west, the...
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Add this copy of From Dawn to Dusk, a Book of Verses to cart. $44.95, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by BiblioBazaar.
