 | 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition |  |
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THE DISCOVERER.
Before him stretched white lengths of shining shore,
Strange mountains raised their stormy heads on high,
Range beyond range, and in an unmapped sky
Flamed stars that lamps of unknown beauty bore;
Strange mountains raised their stormy heads on high,
Range beyond range, and in an unmapped sky
Flamed stars that lamps of unknown beauty bore;
And from the moonlight gleamed a boundless store
Of marvels new, and the deep forest's sigh
To him of mortal men first wafted nigh,
A wondrous music never heard before.
Of marvels new, and the deep forest's sigh
To him of mortal men first wafted nigh,
A wondrous music never heard before.
No human eye had ever fondly dwelt
Upon the mysteries, now about to ope
Their fair untrodden breadths of vale and slope;
Upon the mysteries, now about to ope
Their fair untrodden breadths of vale and slope;
No human heart had ever dreamed or felt
The troubled joy and awe, with which he knelt
Upon the threshold of this world of hope.
The troubled joy and awe, with which he knelt
Upon the threshold of this world of hope.
| 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition | |