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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 | The Downing legends : Stories in Rhyme |  |
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I know you love another. Yea,
I know her name. But let it go!
My gladness had its little day
And set forever. Be it so!
I was not worthy such a throne
Of joy as once seemed all my own.
I know her name. But let it go!
My gladness had its little day
And set forever. Be it so!
I was not worthy such a throne
Of joy as once seemed all my own.
O days when earth was paradise!
When seraphim attended me!
Alas! I half forgot the skies,
Forgot my very God in thee.
He rescued with the sword of flame.
He punished. Hallowed be his name!
When seraphim attended me!
Alas! I half forgot the skies,
Forgot my very God in thee.
He rescued with the sword of flame.
He punished. Hallowed be his name!
I murmur not. I blame you not.
I ask you not for happiness.
I offer not a love forgot.
Its strength is gone. I could not bless
Your life as once I hoped to do.
Henceforth a gulf divides us two.
I ask you not for happiness.
I offer not a love forgot.
Its strength is gone. I could not bless
Your life as once I hoped to do.
Henceforth a gulf divides us two.
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But you, Apollos! where are you?
Am I the only one forsook?
Look back upon the joy you knew
In ways of holiness. Then look
Adown the path you tread to night.
Are they the same? Is darkness light?
Am I the only one forsook?
Look back upon the joy you knew
In ways of holiness. Then look
Adown the path you tread to night.
Are they the same? Is darkness light?
Where is the eloquence that burned
Along the road that leads to God?
Has he who taught the journey, learned
No footstep feebler souls have trod?
The guide, the champion, of our band
Alone turns back from Eden-land.
Along the road that leads to God?
Has he who taught the journey, learned
No footstep feebler souls have trod?
The guide, the champion, of our band
Alone turns back from Eden-land.
Are not the companies of Heaven,
The high communion of the just,
The purity like snow new-driven,
The wealth beyond all loss or rust,
Fairer than any hope to dwell
With lords and princesses of hell?
The high communion of the just,
The purity like snow new-driven,
The wealth beyond all loss or rust,
Fairer than any hope to dwell
With lords and princesses of hell?
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