 | Studies in verse (1865) |  |
“Merciful God! is evil in the wind,
Is evil in the pure beam on the grass?
I cannot find contagion in my love,
That only thought to rear them good and pure:
They found not any falsehood in the fields:
I shewed them pictures from the sacred Book.
How is it they are gone the evil way?
How have they chosen darkness for the sun?
Is evil in the pure beam on the grass?
I cannot find contagion in my love,
That only thought to rear them good and pure:
They found not any falsehood in the fields:
I shewed them pictures from the sacred Book.
How is it they are gone the evil way?
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| Studies in verse (1865) | |