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The Vision of Prophecy and Other Poems

By James D. Burns ... Second Edition
Burns, James Drummond (1823-1864)
  
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THE VISION OF PROPHECY.
  
THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH.
  
THE BURIAL OF JACOB.
  
ICHABOD.
  
THE VISION FROM THE MOUNT.
  
THE MIRACLES OF THE SAVIOUR.
  
PRESENTIMENT.
  
REASON AND FAITH.
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THE DREAM OF CLAUDIA PROCULA, THE WIFE OF PILATE.
  
PROEM.
  
THE DREAM.
  
THE AWAKING.
  
THE VINE OF NOAH.
  
THE TEMPLE OF SAIS.
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THE PILGRIMS: AN APOLOGUE.
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I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII.
 IX. 
IX.
  
THE ABBOT AND FOOL.
  
THE BIRD AND THE BEE.
  
THE PEASANT AND THE POET.
  
TO WORDSWORTH.
  
THOUGHT ON A ROSE.
  
IMAGINATION.
  
THE VESPER HOUR.
  
MOONLIGHT.
  
A NIGHT-REVERIE.
  
LINES TO A STAR.
  
LINES—ALEXANDER WEEPING.
  
THE FLOWER AND OAK-SHOOT.
  
A BIRD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL.
  
THE PETREL.
  
SEQUEL TO THE FOREGOING.
  
TIMOLEON.
  
STRATONICE.
  
ATTILA AT AQUILEIA.
  
MOHAMMED AT DAMASCUS.
  
THE PRINCE AND THE WIDOW.
  
BAALBEK.
  
THE RUINED CHAPEL.
  
LINES WRITTEN IN A FRANCISCAN CONVENT.
  
THE JARDIM DE SERRA:
  
THE VILLAGE FESTIVAL.
  
THE CHARCOAL-BURNERS.
  
A VINTAGE SKETCH.
  
EVENING PICTURE.
  
PORTO SANTO,
  
THE GOLD-SEEKER'S SONG.
  
RHYMES OF A VIGIL.
  
SONNET.
  
A FANCY.
  
CLAVERHOUSE.
  
THE PICTURE OF A MARTYRDOM.
  
THE GRAVE OF DODDRIDGE AT LISBON.
  
RUINS OF CARTEIA,
  
THE BAY OF BARCELONA.
  
CORTONA.
  
INCISA,
  
DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.
  
SONNET—BY THE SEA-SIDE.
  
MY FIRST BIRTHDAY IN A FOREIGN LAND.
  
THE DIAL AND FOUNTAIN.
  
TO A FRIEND IN THE MINISTRY.
  
SONNET.
  
BOAZ AND THE REAPERS.
  
A REMEMBRANCE.
  
A PARABLE-MIRACLE.
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HYMNS AND MEDITATIONS.
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III.
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 VI. 
VI. SABBATH EVENING.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII. TRUTH.
 IX. 
IX.
 X. 
X. A REQUIEM.
 XI. 
XI. THE DEATH OF A BELIEVER.
 XII. 
XII. A THOUGHT AT EVENING.
 XIII. 
XIII.
 XIV. 
XIV.
 XV. 
XV. THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.
 XVI. 
XVI. A THOUGHT ON TIME.
 XVII. 
XVII. LINES.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. HUMILITY.
 XIX. 
XIX. TO A CHRISTIAN FRIEND.
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XX.
 XXI. 
XXI. RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS.
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XXII. MEMORIAL LINES.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. THE BETTER HOPE.
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XXIV.
 XXV. 
XXV. GOD IS LOVE.
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XXVI. TO A FRIEND DEPARTED.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. VIA DOLOROSA.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE AT THE SEPULCHRE.
 XXIX. 
XXIX.
  
ATLANTIS.

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XXV. GOD IS LOVE.

Thou, Lord, art Love, and everywhere
Thy name is brightly shown;
Beneath, on earth Thy footstool fair,
Above, on heaven Thy throne.
Thy word is love, in lines of gold
There mercy prints its trace;
In Nature we thy steps behold,
The Gospel shows thy face.
Thy ways are love, though they transcend
Our feeble range of sight;
They wind through darkness to their end
In everlasting light.
Thy thoughts are love, and Jesus is
The living voice they find;
His love lights up the vast abyss
Of the eternal mind.
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Thy chastisements are love,—more deep
They stamp the seal divine,
And, by a sweet compulsion, keep
Our spirits nearer Thine.
Thy heaven is the abode of love;
O blessèd Lord! that we
May there, when Time's dim shades remove,
Be gathered home to Thee.
There, with Thy resting saints, to fall
Adoring round the throne,
When all shall love thee, Lord, and all
Shall in thy love be one!
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