The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis |
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A THOUGHT AT MATINS. |
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A THOUGHT AT MATINS.
September 18, 1842.
The sun fell fair on Kelly walls
On Maitland's christening-day,
And lighted up his father's halls
With autumn's loveliest ray:
The Angel of his Baptism trod
A path bright from the home of God!
On Maitland's christening-day,
And lighted up his father's halls
With autumn's loveliest ray:
The Angel of his Baptism trod
A path bright from the home of God!
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Shall it not be to us a sign—
A parable of joy—
That radiance from above will shine
Around our gentle boy?
Since such the sun that greets his gaze,
This first-born of his Christian-days!
A parable of joy—
That radiance from above will shine
Around our gentle boy?
Since such the sun that greets his gaze,
This first-born of his Christian-days!
Kelly House,
September, 1842.
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