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WOODLAND VESPERS.
Hark! as rises now the moon,
And the star of day declines,
Soaring with night's growing noon;
Hark! along yon mount of pines,
Slowly sweet, the memories rise,
As of spirits born to sing
Of the loves of earth and skies,
In the coming of the spring—
Jubilate!
And the star of day declines,
Soaring with night's growing noon;
Hark! along yon mount of pines,
Slowly sweet, the memories rise,
As of spirits born to sing
Of the loves of earth and skies,
In the coming of the spring—
Jubilate!
Pleasures, born of faith and prayer;
Dreams, from angel whispers caught;
Memories pure, and visions rare,
Grow from memory to thought.
And in diapason sweet,
How, together, do they rise
Into music; joyous, meet,
For the peace, in peaceful skies—
Jubilate!
Dreams, from angel whispers caught;
Memories pure, and visions rare,
Grow from memory to thought.
And in diapason sweet,
How, together, do they rise
Into music; joyous, meet,
For the peace, in peaceful skies—
Jubilate!
Voices of the secret heart,
Mingling with the voice of groves;
Birds that, with a natural art,
Sing together of their loves—
And so pure the happy strain,
Gushing from so sweet a spring,
That our hope grows young again,
With renewal of its wing—
Jubilate!
Mingling with the voice of groves;
Birds that, with a natural art,
Sing together of their loves—
And so pure the happy strain,
Gushing from so sweet a spring,
That our hope grows young again,
With renewal of its wing—
Jubilate!
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Oh! the peace that crowns the shade,
When the passion fires, subdued,
Leave the soul, where once they sway'd,
To the careless solitude!
Not the wild delirium now,
That once fever'd heart and mind,
But a milder, gentler glow,
Leaving love and peace behind—
Jubilate!
When the passion fires, subdued,
Leave the soul, where once they sway'd,
To the careless solitude!
Not the wild delirium now,
That once fever'd heart and mind,
But a milder, gentler glow,
Leaving love and peace behind—
Jubilate!
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