 | Sonnets by the Rev. Charles Strong |  |
LII.
Well I remember, on my youthful ear
When first the solemn Hallelujahs fell;
Through dim aisles roll'd the echoes, like the swell
Of mighty waters when the winds career:
When first the solemn Hallelujahs fell;
Through dim aisles roll'd the echoes, like the swell
Of mighty waters when the winds career:
Great was my transport, and sublimed by fear;
High thoughts of those, who in God's presence dwell,
Possess'd my soul, and Judgment, Heaven, and Hell
As dread realities did now appear:
High thoughts of those, who in God's presence dwell,
Possess'd my soul, and Judgment, Heaven, and Hell
As dread realities did now appear:
And when the deep notes ceas'd, and evening gleamed,
A voice serene amid the pillared gloom
Of the Redeemer sang, and the Redeemed;
A voice serene amid the pillared gloom
Of the Redeemer sang, and the Redeemed;
Of Death, and Resurrection from the tomb;
How the rejected One, and the blasphemed,
Should in His glory come, and seal our doom.
How the rejected One, and the blasphemed,
Should in His glory come, and seal our doom.
| Sonnets by the Rev. Charles Strong | |