 | The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder |  |
MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT
The mountain that the morn doth kiss
Glad greets its shining neighbor;
Lord! heed the homage of our bliss,
The incense of our labor.
Glad greets its shining neighbor;
Lord! heed the homage of our bliss,
The incense of our labor.
Sharp smites the sun like burning rain,
And field and flower languish;
Hear, Lord! the pleading of our pain,
The passion of our anguish.
And field and flower languish;
Hear, Lord! the pleading of our pain,
The passion of our anguish.
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Now the long shadows eastward creep,
The golden sun is setting;
Take, Lord! the worship of our sleep,
The praise of our forgetting.
The golden sun is setting;
Take, Lord! the worship of our sleep,
The praise of our forgetting.
| The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder | |