 | [Poems by Cary in] The poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary with introduction and notes |  |
PARTING AND MEETING.
On the casements, closed and lonesome,
Is falling the autumn rain,
And my heart to-night is heavy
With a sense of unquiet pain.
Is falling the autumn rain,
And my heart to-night is heavy
With a sense of unquiet pain.
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Not that the leaves are dying
In the kiss of the traitor frost,
And not that the summer flowers
On the bitter winds are tossed.
In the kiss of the traitor frost,
And not that the summer flowers
On the bitter winds are tossed.
And not that the reaper's singing
The time no longer cheers,
Bringing home through the mellow starlight
The sheaves and the yellow ears.
The time no longer cheers,
Bringing home through the mellow starlight
The sheaves and the yellow ears.
No, not from these am I sighing,
As the hours pass slow and dull,
For God in his own time maketh
All seasons beautiful.
As the hours pass slow and dull,
For God in his own time maketh
All seasons beautiful.
But one of our household number
Sits not by the hearth-fire's light,
And right on her pathway beating
Is the rain of this autumn night.
Sits not by the hearth-fire's light,
And right on her pathway beating
Is the rain of this autumn night.
And therefore my heart is heavy
With a sense of unquiet pain,
For, but Heaven can tell if the parted
Shall meet in the earth again.
With a sense of unquiet pain,
For, but Heaven can tell if the parted
Shall meet in the earth again.
But knowing God's love extendeth
Wherever his children are,
And tenderly round about them
Are the arms of his watchful care;
Wherever his children are,
And tenderly round about them
Are the arms of his watchful care;
With him be the time and the season
Of our meeting again with thee,
Whether here on these earthly borders,
Or the shore of the world to be.
Of our meeting again with thee,
Whether here on these earthly borders,
Or the shore of the world to be.
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