The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes |
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ANTICIPATION.
Hail, Realm of gloom! whose clouds are ice! whose airIs made of thought-sick sighs!
Whose fields are dead men's dust, from which despair
Shrinks as he dies!
Though on thee, and within (sad Infinite!)
Are darkness, death, and doom;
Beyond thee shines the sun of mind and might,
The Power that made thee, God—hail, Holy Light!
I come, I come.
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