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Art and Fashion

With other sketches, songs and poems. By Charles Swain
Swain, Charles (1801-1874)
  
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ART AND FASHION.
  
REYNOLDS.
  
GAINSBOROUGH.
  
HAYDON.
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LEONARDO DA VINCI.
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 II. 
Scene II.
  
GIULIO ROMANO.
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SONGS AND POEMS.
  
THE CHAPEL-BELL.
  
ENDURANCE.
  
YEARS TO COME.
  
“NIGHT” AND “MORNING.”
  
THE BEST ESTATE.
  
IN MEMORIAM.
  
THE WANDERER.
  
A DAILY SCENE.
  
THE VICAR'S BLIND DAUGHTER.
  
CRADLE SONG.
  
THE WOODLAND WAY.
  
NOT MY OWN.
  
FREAKS OF FATE.
  
WATCHING AND WAITING.
  
PAN'S DEW-DROP.
  
BE SURE YOU CALL.
  
FALSE AS WATER.
  
LOVERS' WALKS.
  
PLAIN FACES.
  
NEVERMORE.
  
DID YOU KNOW HER?
  
NEVER FOUND.
  
SMALL GIFTS.
  
LYRIC.
  
ROUND THE CORNER.
  
THE BRITISH PRESS.
  
BIRTHDAY LYRIC.
  
CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF MISS FLEMING.
  
HELP EACH OTHER.
  
A DAY AGO.
  
GOOD ADVICE.
  
THE MERRY HEART.
  
THE MAGIC GLASS.
  
THE FORTRESS.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR JOHN POTTER, M.P., FOUNDER OF THE FREE LIBRARY.
  
OLD FRIENDS AND OLD TIMES.
  
TO THE YOUNG.
  
A HEART FOR EVERY ONE.
  
THANK GOD FOR ALL.
  
THE CROSS OF CHRIST.
  
THE OLD EVENINGS.
  
THE CHARITIES OF LIFE.
  
LITTLE REQUIRED.
  
EVERYBODY'S GIPSY.
  
WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?
  
THE WHEREWITHAL.
  
PASSING AWAY.
  
DEAD, YET UNDIVIDED.
  
THE HOPES GONE BY.
  
FLOWERS.
  
MORN.
  
THE HIDDEN DELL.
  
THE SOUL.
  
AN EARLY VISITOR.
  
BLAME ME NOT.
  
THE DEAD SWAN.
  
THE LOST ONE FOUND.
  
TORQUATO TASSO.
  
ADAM.
  
WAITING FOR THE COUNTESS.
  
YOUTH AND AGE.
  
RIVA DI SAN MARCO.
  
THE ANGEL'S CALL.
  
ALL THINGS FOR GOOD.
  
THE FLOWER SPIRIT.
  
THE SHIP OF HEAVEN.
  
THE EVE OF ST. JOHN.
  
NOT TO-NIGHT.
  
THE TEMPLE.
  
THE HEART.
  
THE CAPTIVE.
  
EARTHLY BEAUTY.
  
DESPONDENCY.
  
FAITHFUL AND FAITHLESS.
  
ANGELS.
  
LOVE THEE?
  
MY LIFE WAS LIKE A FOUNTAIN.
  
THE FALSE ONE.
  
WILL HE COME?
  
THE CAMP IS UP!
  
LITTLE THINGS.
  
SOIL OF ENGLAND.
  
THINKING OF OTHER DAYS.
  
LET NOBODY KNOW.
  
WAIT TILL I PUT ON MY BONNET.
  
THE GARDEN STREAM.
  
THE HAND OF A FRIEND.
  
WIFE OF THE PIRATE.
  
THE DAWN.
  
VOYAGE OF LIFE.
  
THE LONELY HOME.
  
WHICH HOME?
  
THE WORLDLY VOICE.
  
NE'ER WILL I FORSAKE THEE, MOTHER.
  
A LAMENT.
  
FIRST EMOTIONS.
  
THE DOOMED CITY.
  
LOVE UNTOLD.
  
THE SNOW SHIP.
  
THUS NATURE SPEAKS.
  
HYMN TO THE CROSS.
  
GOD HELP THE ORPHAN.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF HENRY DRINKWATER BIRCH, AGED SEVEN YEARS.

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175

THE FORTRESS.

What fortress spans this rock forlorn?
What sea mourns at its feet?
Its walls “might laugh a siege to scorn,”
Its tide engulph a fleet!
Yet rusted swing its iron gates;
Scant guard the warder keeps;
One at the portal stands and waits,—
One stands, and waits, and weeps.
The banner lifts its batter'd crest
Above the shipless tide;
The harbour seems in little quest,
Nor pilot here, nor guide.
Ho! tell me who this fortress claims?
Who claims? the watcher saith—
One who with joy each angel names,
The heir of all is Faith!
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And 'tis the banner of our God
That floats upon the morn;
This is the Rock that all have trod
Who've sprung, through Faith, new born.
Though few the feet that enter in,
Yet shall a day appear,
When God shall strike the gates of sin,
And all shall enter here.
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