 | The poems and prose writings of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield |  |
Dayspring and evelight, thus, year after year,
Dawned and departed, and the seasons had
Their own peculiar joys in Pansa's home.
And there—the Roman Convert's testament—
The storm-nursed heritors of Faith, blasphemed,
Throned Liberty on Alpine pinnacles,
And bade her temple be the Switzer hills.
There in love worshipped, there with hoar hairs died
The Christians, but their deathless spirits lived
In the high thoughts of many a patriot heart,
Which, thrilled with Freedom and God's holy Law,
With tyrant Wrong warred through Guilt's thousand years.
Dawned and departed, and the seasons had
Their own peculiar joys in Pansa's home.
And there—the Roman Convert's testament—
The storm-nursed heritors of Faith, blasphemed,
Throned Liberty on Alpine pinnacles,
And bade her temple be the Switzer hills.
There in love worshipped, there with hoar hairs died
The Christians, but their deathless spirits lived
In the high thoughts of many a patriot heart,
Which, thrilled with Freedom and God's holy Law,
With tyrant Wrong warred through Guilt's thousand years.
| The poems and prose writings of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield | |