Lectures on poetry delivered at Oxford By Sir Francis Hastings Doyle ... Second Series |
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STANZAS SUGGESTED BY THE ABOVE.
They dream, but dreams are of the night;
Will not the sun rise by-and-by?
Or is the hope that thirsts for light
Only a mocking lie?
Will not the sun rise by-and-by?
Or is the hope that thirsts for light
Only a mocking lie?
A wondrous dawn may wake, and turn
To floods of life the phantom snows,
Whilst desert sands that drift and burn
Shall blossom as the rose.
To floods of life the phantom snows,
Whilst desert sands that drift and burn
Shall blossom as the rose.
The pine and palm may feel that then
Both cold and heat, and Time and Space,
On polar crag, in tropic glen,
To other laws give place.
Both cold and heat, and Time and Space,
On polar crag, in tropic glen,
To other laws give place.
Through them, whilst the young heavens grow rife
With joy, and airs divinely sweet,
Distance dies off from spirit-life,
That severed hearts may meet.
With joy, and airs divinely sweet,
Distance dies off from spirit-life,
That severed hearts may meet.
Oh leave that thought to float above,
Each parching leaf, each blighted bough;
It breathes of hope, it breathes of love,
It worketh on—even now,
Each parching leaf, each blighted bough;
It breathes of hope, it breathes of love,
It worketh on—even now,
In that dark pine's despairing breast,
To melt the bitter frost of pain;
And on his drooping palm-tree's crest
Falls like the early rain.
To melt the bitter frost of pain;
And on his drooping palm-tree's crest
Falls like the early rain.
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