Lyra Pastoralis Songs of Nature, Church, and Home: By Richard Wilton |
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The View from Christ Church
Parsonage, West Walls, Carlisle |
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The View from Christ Church Parsonage, West Walls, Carlisle
What contrasts strange diversify this view!In front an ever-moving, noisy scene
Of trains and traffic—rows of houses mean,
Shadowed by factories huge of dusky hue—
Churches and chimneys tall; with glimpses through
Of quiet fields—a cemetery green
And still—while in the distance stand serene
The mountains veiled in soft aerial blue.
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Bearing Heaven's balm to soothe Earth's weary sighs—
Cheered by the smile of Nature now and then—
By sight of man's mortality made wise—
And through life's struggle keeping in his ken
The eternal hills which in the distance rise.
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