Ballads for the Times (Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised |
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Away, away, Suspicion!
And hail, thou generous heat;
With tears of just contrition
Let me wash my brothers' feet:
For I have sinn'd,—how often!
While Charity stood by
This stony heart to soften,
And to melt this frozen eye!
And hail, thou generous heat;
With tears of just contrition
Let me wash my brothers' feet:
For I have sinn'd,—how often!
While Charity stood by
This stony heart to soften,
And to melt this frozen eye!
Yes,—I have err'd, like others,
By coldness and constraint,
Forgetting we are brothers,
The sinner as the saint,—
All children of one Father,
All guilty and all weak,
And bound by these the rather
Every wanderer to seek!
By coldness and constraint,
Forgetting we are brothers,
The sinner as the saint,—
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All guilty and all weak,
And bound by these the rather
Every wanderer to seek!
Awake then! holy yearning
The hearts of men to thrill,—
Ascend! sweet incense burning
To warm the human will;
O let us dare with boldness
To burst this girdling chain
Of common social coldness,
And to love as babes again!
The hearts of men to thrill,—
Ascend! sweet incense burning
To warm the human will;
O let us dare with boldness
To burst this girdling chain
Of common social coldness,
And to love as babes again!
In frankness, and in fairness,
Go forth and reap the earth,—
Its richness and its rareness,
Its more than money's-worth;
Go forth, and win from others
Their honour and their love,
By treating them as brothers
And the sons of God above!
Go forth and reap the earth,—
Its richness and its rareness,
Its more than money's-worth;
Go forth, and win from others
Their honour and their love,
By treating them as brothers
And the sons of God above!
For in that brighter Sequel
To which our beings tend
At last we shall be equal
In One Redeeming Friend!
And He, who made us brothers,
Our Lord, and brother too,
Hath gone before the others
To prepare for them and you!
To which our beings tend
At last we shall be equal
In One Redeeming Friend!
And He, who made us brothers,
Our Lord, and brother too,
Hath gone before the others
To prepare for them and you!
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Thus then shall heirs of heaven,
But not the slaves of sin,—
Forgiving and forgiven
This holy triad win;
Free,—equal,—and fraternal,
In God's own way and time,
To live the life eternal,
And to love the love sublime!
But not the slaves of sin,—
Forgiving and forgiven
This holy triad win;
Free,—equal,—and fraternal,
In God's own way and time,
To live the life eternal,
And to love the love sublime!
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