The Downing legends : Stories in Rhyme The witch of Shiloh, the last of the Wampanoags, the gentle earl, the enchanted voyage |
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One summer eve Apollos soughtThe bedside of a dying boy;
Unearthly comfortings he brought,
And changed the trembling plaint to joy.
His prayer arose on lyric wings
That seemed to challenge angel flights;
His psalm resounded like the strings
Of golden harps on Eden's heights;
And ere he left the mourning hearth
To follow paths that seraphs flee,
A grateful soul had 'scaped from earth
And pain and sin and such as he.
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