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Rondeaux and Sonnets. By the Rev. Richard Wilton
  
  

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XXXVII. TO FRIENDS SOJOURNING AMONG THE VAUDOIS.

O friends of mine, beloved of old,
Whom time and circumstance withhold
From dear communion face to face—
Have kindly thoughts of me found place
'Mid Vaudois mountains towering bold?
Where peaks their snowy brows unfold,
And rivers in cascades are rolled,
Seem you a far-off voice to trace,
O friends of mine?
I leap across the bars of space;
The valley-paths with you I pace;
Where Faith through fiery woes untold
Once passed, but came forth pure as gold:
God grant to us such conquering grace,
O friends of mine!