Studies of Sensation and Event Poems: By Ebenezer Jones. Edited, Prefaced and Annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd with Memorial Notices of the Author by Sumner Jones and William James Linton |
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SEEKERS.
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SEEKERS.
Twice three years in this tomb she hath lain;
Speak low, speak low.
One like to her doth the earth yet contain?
We have sought ever; is the search vain?
Speak low.
Speak low, speak low.
One like to her doth the earth yet contain?
We have sought ever; is the search vain?
Speak low.
Answer we nothing? none have we found?
Weep not, weep not.
One like to her earth could but wound,
Sense with but wearying trammels bound;—
Weep not.
Weep not, weep not.
One like to her earth could but wound,
Sense with but wearying trammels bound;—
Weep not.
I would not meet one like to her!
Start not, start not.
Not with hope search I the world's strife and stir,
Ne'er at two shrines be I worshipper;—
Start not.
Start not, start not.
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Ne'er at two shrines be I worshipper;—
Start not.
Part we now from around her tomb,—
Speak low, speak low.
East and west, through the world's gloom,
Seeking ever till here we come;—
Speak low.
Speak low, speak low.
East and west, through the world's gloom,
Seeking ever till here we come;—
Speak low.
September 1845.
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