A book of Bristol sonnets By H. D. Rawnsley |
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ON NOTICING THAT THE ONLY LIME
TREE
NOT IN BUD, AT COLLEGE
GREEN, FRONTED THE CATHEDRAL
PORCH. |
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ON NOTICING THAT THE ONLY LIME TREE NOT IN BUD, AT COLLEGE GREEN, FRONTED THE CATHEDRAL PORCH.
MAY 1st, 1876.
To that Cathedral square heart-sick I came
When first the limes made summer in mid-sky;
One, unadorned with her green tracery,
Fronted the porch, where weeps unhappy Fame.
Hast thou felt Envy's chill, and blows that maim?
Did thy blood freeze when crashed the statuary?
Or dost withhold thy veil, that passers by,
Whose hearts can love not, yet may blush for shame?
Sad sister of this green-encircling row,
Thou art too noble for such petty strife!
It is that from thy youth two streams of life
Have sucked subsistence from one heart below.
Ensample thou to our too factious time,
Which, while men stand apart, puts off Christ's earlier prime!
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