Life and Phantasy by William Allingham: With frontispiece by Sir John E. Millais: A design by Arthur H. Hughes and a song for voice and piano forte |
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HALLOWED MEMORY.
Still in my pray'rs and in my dreams,
Tho' from my hourly thoughts exiled,
As spirit-bright thine image beams
As ever saint on hermit smiled.
Tho' from my hourly thoughts exiled,
As spirit-bright thine image beams
As ever saint on hermit smiled.
I used to breathe thy name in pray'r
With human feeling warm and deep;
Now breathed as those that angels bear,
Where love is never taught to weep.
With human feeling warm and deep;
Now breathed as those that angels bear,
Where love is never taught to weep.
I used to dream thy hand in mine,
And waken with a longing pain;
But now the dream is too divine
To link itself with earth again.
And waken with a longing pain;
But now the dream is too divine
To link itself with earth again.
Oh, early found and early lost!
Though on my course thou sheddest now
No light, no strength when tempest-tost,
Still in my pray'rs and dreams art thou.
Though on my course thou sheddest now
No light, no strength when tempest-tost,
Still in my pray'rs and dreams art thou.
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