. The new day, a poem in songs and sonnets . carried Oer that brown and bladeless place. He shook it, as God shakes hail Over a doomed land, When lightnmgs interlace The sky and the earth, and his wand Of love is a thunder-flail. 70 /?///; A/.ir /Ki )? Tluis (lid thai SowtT sow ;I I is srcd was hiiiiiaii hlood,And tears ol woiiuMi and I, who near liiiii : WlKn Mic ii, did 1 see? What was it that I heard ? Tlu soul; ol a sweel voicecl bird? Nay — hnt the son^s ol many, ThrilKd tln-oui;h with piaise and jirayer, {)r all Ihosi Noiecs nol any Were sad of memory : And a. sea of
. The new day, a poem in songs and sonnets . carried Oer that brown and bladeless place. He shook it, as God shakes hail Over a doomed land, When lightnmgs interlace The sky and the earth, and his wand Of love is a thunder-flail. 70 /?///; A/.ir /Ki )? Tluis (lid thai SowtT sow ;I I is srcd was hiiiiiaii hlood,And tears ol woiiuMi and I, who near liiiii : WlKn Mic ii, did 1 see? What was it that I heard ? Tlu soul; ol a sweel voicecl bird? Nay — hnt the son^s ol many, ThrilKd tln-oui;h with piaise and jirayer, {)r all Ihosi Noiecs nol any Were sad of memory : And a. sea of suniii^ht llowed, Ami a {golden harvest j;K)wed ! 7///; .v/.ir />.iy. 71 On my Hk i I loll down there;And I said : Thou only ;iit wise —(lod of llie earth ;mh1 skies!And 1 tliank tliee, again ;uid .iK^^For the Sower whose name is 72 THE NEW DAW XXVIII. WHEN THE LAST DOUBT IS DOUBTED. When the last doubt is doubted,The last black shadow flown;When the last foe is routed; When the night is over and gone:Then, Love, oh then! there will be rest and peace:Sweet peace and rest that never thou hast known. When the hope that in thee moveth Is born and brought to sight; When past is the pain that proveth The worth of thy new delight: Oh then, Love ! then there will be joy and peace: Deep peace and joy, bright morning after night. INTERLUDE. lO
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