Dramatic Scenes With Other Poems, Now First Printed. By Barry Cornwall [i.e. Bryan Waller Procter]. Illustrated |
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HEARING.
Charming is it in a poem
That Refrain!
Never comes the sweet recurrence
Murmuring on the ear in vain:
Sweetest is the song in leisure,
Linking pleasure unto pleasure,
Hiding all the pain.
That Refrain!
Never comes the sweet recurrence
Murmuring on the ear in vain:
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Linking pleasure unto pleasure,
Hiding all the pain.
Curious is the sense of hearing!
How it bears
You back into the dreams of distance,
Vanished joys, forgotten cares,
Through the starry ether, bringing
Down the orbèd angels' singing
From the upper airs.
How it bears
You back into the dreams of distance,
Vanished joys, forgotten cares,
Through the starry ether, bringing
Down the orbèd angels' singing
From the upper airs.
What, unheard, were Love's own music?
Senseless, cold.
What would be the sweet confession?
It might—ah,—remain untold!
What the cannon's thunderous stories?
What our Australasian glories,
With their tales of gold?
Senseless, cold.
What would be the sweet confession?
It might—ah,—remain untold!
What the cannon's thunderous stories?
What our Australasian glories,
With their tales of gold?
Hearing! Sight! All-mystic powers!
What has e'er
Man, in his divinest hours,
Wrought that shall with these compare?
Gifts are they, from Him who giveth
Life to everything that liveth,
Patient Strength that ne'er repineth,
Hope that soareth, Love that shineth
Upon every care.
What has e'er
Man, in his divinest hours,
Wrought that shall with these compare?
Gifts are they, from Him who giveth
Life to everything that liveth,
Patient Strength that ne'er repineth,
Hope that soareth, Love that shineth
Upon every care.
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