The Legend of St. Loy With Other Poems. By John Abraham Heraud |
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 | The Legend of St. Loy |  |
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“Daughter of Heaven! whose steps of light“Stately adorn the vault of night,
“Why dost thou now desert the skies,
“With thy companions? wake! arise!
“Reveal the silence of thy face,
“Pleasant in loveliness and grace—
“And with thy tide of beauty bathe
“The clouds rejoicing in thy path.
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“Constrain thee to thy Ocean-cell?
“Or the weird sister's blasting rite
“Blank thy chaste, cold, and paly light?
“And shut up every stellar spark?
“Thine azure path in Heaven is dark!
“In darkness roll the troubled waves,
“While the northern loudly raves,
“Howling through the dismal wood,
“And chokes with trees the swelling flood—
“Arise! ye winds of winter, rise!
“O tempest ye, again, the skies!
“Blow ye blasts along the heath!
“Echo, ye hills, the sounds of death!
“Heaven, rive again the solid oak,
“With the repeated thunder-stroke!
“Remind me of the flashing deep,
“Where all my joys for ever sleep!”
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