Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
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[Clouds and mists and vapours dim]
Clouds and mists and vapours dim,
Wrap no more the ethereal sky,
But below the horizon's rim
Dip your wreathed forms and fly:
Let no revellers' voices dare
Start the undisturbed air.
Wrap no more the ethereal sky,
But below the horizon's rim
Dip your wreathed forms and fly:
Let no revellers' voices dare
Start the undisturbed air.
Lo! the Moon full-orbed is wheeled
Toward the occidental gate,
Guardians of her lucent field
Two immortals hold their state:
Breathing on the charmed air
Reverence sits and Silence fair,
Toward the occidental gate,
Guardians of her lucent field
Two immortals hold their state:
Breathing on the charmed air
Reverence sits and Silence fair,
Side by side, in strictest union,
Linked together on their chair,
Holding with their eyes communion,
Lover-like, a sainted pair,
Stretching forth their silver hands
O'er the seas and silent lands.
Linked together on their chair,
Holding with their eyes communion,
Lover-like, a sainted pair,
Stretching forth their silver hands
O'er the seas and silent lands.
1844.
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