Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . < H§ aH Mirths Music Man in lifes labyrinth strange music hearsOf labor, in the drone of Egypts groaning wheels,Of pleasure, in those soft voluptuous reelsDanced near the Danubes ever flowing tide. Sometimes it flutters down from out the sky,Then tis the happy Larks mad rising nearer earth with silvery notesThe unseen Tree-toads trilling symphony. But come, fair Goddess Mirth! and bring todayThy music—and with me let it abide;Murmur of loved voices gone, or far faint laughter from dark Lethes side. Enough the sermon
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . < H§ aH Mirths Music Man in lifes labyrinth strange music hearsOf labor, in the drone of Egypts groaning wheels,Of pleasure, in those soft voluptuous reelsDanced near the Danubes ever flowing tide. Sometimes it flutters down from out the sky,Then tis the happy Larks mad rising nearer earth with silvery notesThe unseen Tree-toads trilling symphony. But come, fair Goddess Mirth! and bring todayThy music—and with me let it abide;Murmur of loved voices gone, or far faint laughter from dark Lethes side. Enough the sermons and the sorrows are! Enough the noise of Life and its stem jar! So come. Thou dimpled Goddess, stay with me, Or if Thou needs must go—then let me go with [182] Digitized by Microsoft® To Holland Holland, thou wast not bom of Doubt,Doubt never checked the wild North Sea,Nor did it drive away that blight,The blight of Spanish bigotry. A dogged Faith in Man himself. And not in mouldering bones of Saints, Is why the blessed Sun now paints With Hopes bright green thy meadows free. Faith in thy strength, Faith in thy back the sea, drove back the blight;And now, oer fields restored to light,Blows the sane breath of Liberty.
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