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Ballads and Sonnets

By Alexander Anderson. ("Surfaceman")
Anderson, Alexander (1845-1909)

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BLIND MATTHEW.
  
ADA.
  
THE ENGINE.
  
THE MOTHER AND THE ANGEL.
  
THE SPIRIT OF THE WATERS.
  
NOTTMAN.
  
SUMMER INVOCATION.
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SONNETS TO A PICTURE.
  
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SONNETS TO A PICTURE.
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THE RED LEAF.
  
HE CAME FROM A LAND.
  
A PARTING.
  
WHERE I AM LYING NOW.
  
A MEMORY.
  
AGNES.
  
[O! just to see you again, Annie]
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SONNETS TO A FRIEND.
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VI.

[And thou, in such calm moments, wilt again]

And thou, in such calm moments, wilt again
Stand in that holy silent light which swims
With unsung liturgies and incensed hymns
That ever teach us life is light and vain!
Nay, in thy spirit thou wilt walk in awe
Adown the column'd vista of the nave,
Till transept, altar, and high architrave
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Deepen and take the universal law
Of worship. Or wilt thou become as one
Who hath no motion, and with eyes that seem
To gaze beyond their light, drink in the mild
Celestial splendour of our Raphael's dream,
And steep'd in all the art thou gazest on—
Half worship the Madonna and her Child!
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