. At early candle light and other poems. AT EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT •^^^^^HERE is no night in heaven,so the circuit-rider said;Now, blessings on his saintlyheart, and on his silver head,He little knew how I haddreamed, when all my workwas meeting, in my Fathershouse my long-lost little how my yearning soul shall miss—if heaven has no night—That hour of all hours the best, * the early candle-light!. I know the dawn is lovely when the rosy wreaths ofcloud Fall into purple furrows which the sun has newly plowed; The prairie, like an open hearth, on which the day dothkneel To blow the coa
. At early candle light and other poems. AT EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT •^^^^^HERE is no night in heaven,so the circuit-rider said;Now, blessings on his saintlyheart, and on his silver head,He little knew how I haddreamed, when all my workwas meeting, in my Fathershouse my long-lost little how my yearning soul shall miss—if heaven has no night—That hour of all hours the best, * the early candle-light!. I know the dawn is lovely when the rosy wreaths ofcloud Fall into purple furrows which the sun has newly plowed; The prairie, like an open hearth, on which the day dothkneel To blow the coals of morning into splendors that reveal The colors that are curled within the woven mists ofwhite. But t is not so hushed and holy as the early candle-light. 41 42 TVr CT^RLY CANDLE-LIGHT And sweet the noon in summer, when thro the lattice blowsThe wind that softly whispers where the cool clematis grows;The wheat within the valley bending in the breeze,And drowsy cattle wading the tarn among the eagle oer them sailing thro the sky of lazulite,But it can not bring the comfort of the early candle-light. Oft I picture eve in heaven, where not a leaf doth every harp grows silent, hushed each lute and dulcimer ;Where, thro the quiet twilight, down a path of Paradise,Toward the gate comes baby Kate, with gladness in her on the paneled pearl lifts the latch of jasper bright,To
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