 | Songs and Poems by George Sigerson |  |
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AN INVOCATION
Heart of the Lark! in the high sky singing,
Sunshine above you, under you, love,
Summer around in the new grass springing,
Blushes of blossom over the grove:
Sunshine above you, under you, love,
Summer around in the new grass springing,
Blushes of blossom over the grove:
Flash of the Stream! all the bare rock brightening,
Filling the glen with luminous bees,
Sending your murmurous thunder and lightning
Far on the echoing breath of the breeze:
Filling the glen with luminous bees,
Sending your murmurous thunder and lightning
Far on the echoing breath of the breeze:
Flower of the May! on the fair boughs showing,
Robing them round, like brides, in white—
Visions of Violets! gleaming and glowing,
Odours of Eden, and all delights:
Robing them round, like brides, in white—
Visions of Violets! gleaming and glowing,
Odours of Eden, and all delights:
Splendour of Ocean! whose wild waves measure
Wrath great as worlds, worlds to defy,—
Splendour a-glow in its tremulous azure
Brimming with love to earth and to sky:
Wrath great as worlds, worlds to defy,—
Splendour a-glow in its tremulous azure
Brimming with love to earth and to sky:
Musing of Mountains! veterans gravely
Warding the ways to th' infinite blue,
Scarred with all storms immemorial, bravely,
Rugged and bronzed and tender and true:
Warding the ways to th' infinite blue,
Scarred with all storms immemorial, bravely,
Rugged and bronzed and tender and true:
Silence of Snow! a hovering whiteness
Floating and falling, fold over fold,
Clothing the busy earth over with brightness,
Softness and purity, woodland and wold:
Floating and falling, fold over fold,
Clothing the busy earth over with brightness,
Softness and purity, woodland and wold:
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Come to us swiftly, O Silence that frees us!
Lights that deliver, Sights that illume,
Song that would save when the world-clouds seize us,
Shrouding our hearts in cerement of gloom.
Lights that deliver, Sights that illume,
Song that would save when the world-clouds seize us,
Shrouding our hearts in cerement of gloom.
We are compact of you! Hence this yearning
Love for the life of earth and of skies,
Fain would our atoms—exiles returning—
Fly as the freed bird home to you flies.
Love for the life of earth and of skies,
Fain would our atoms—exiles returning—
Fly as the freed bird home to you flies.
Flash in your founts, in your soft snow hushing,
Roll in your thunders, surge in your seas;
Thrill in your song, in your bright blooms flushing,
Rove in the rapturous breath of your breeze.
Roll in your thunders, surge in your seas;
Thrill in your song, in your bright blooms flushing,
Rove in the rapturous breath of your breeze.
Are they not of you?—even as ember
Flames into light from its covering ash,
Still, in their prison, they sometimes remember,
And gleams through its darkness fitfully flash.
Flames into light from its covering ash,
Still, in their prison, they sometimes remember,
And gleams through its darkness fitfully flash.
Then, as in chamber obscure, we behold them,—
Live o'er again the free life of the air,
Shine, till the darkness once more shall enfold them:
Singing inaudible melodies there.
Live o'er again the free life of the air,
Shine, till the darkness once more shall enfold them:
Singing inaudible melodies there.
Shall they not rise, through the red earth springing,
Called by a Voice of new Summer above;
Till, Spirit-led, o'er the high sky singing,
They live in the Life of Infinite Love!
Called by a Voice of new Summer above;
Till, Spirit-led, o'er the high sky singing,
They live in the Life of Infinite Love!
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