. The hope of the world and other poems. ght; 84 THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. Swift legions they, yet no man heard their Nature lays aside her monrning veil, Her wrinkled leaves and grasses, sere and brown,Down neath the snow are little more than dust;Yet calm, resigned, thoiigh naked, mnte and pale. She waits Gods pleasure and a vernal crown,Teaching impatient man her silent, simjale trust. THE CBEED OF THE HILLS. This is the creed the hills declare to me:Yea, truth and beauty live eternally;There is no spark of God aglow in tender thought, nor heavenly
. The hope of the world and other poems. ght; 84 THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. Swift legions they, yet no man heard their Nature lays aside her monrning veil, Her wrinkled leaves and grasses, sere and brown,Down neath the snow are little more than dust;Yet calm, resigned, thoiigh naked, mnte and pale. She waits Gods pleasure and a vernal crown,Teaching impatient man her silent, simjale trust. THE CBEED OF THE HILLS. This is the creed the hills declare to me:Yea, truth and beauty live eternally;There is no spark of God aglow in tender thought, nor heavenly shall outlive yon granite rocks, and beA jjart of God when earth hath lost its plan. HEAVEN IS WHEEE GOds ANGELS AEE. I If our love of things immortalCould exceed our love of sin. Then would earth be Heavens portalAnd our heaven here begin. ESCAPED. For fourscore years they boimd his heart and brainIn that dark ceU with stem existences chain,But when his ransom came, Death turaed the key;Though Life was giiard, the prisoner went TKUTH SHALL OUTLIVE YON GRANITE ROCKS. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. 87 PEACE ON EARTH. On Freedoms heights I see the camp fires burn,Where her brave soldiers, weary, lie asleep,While overhead the constellations keep Their nightly watch oer action sad and stern. Brave are these hearts, and manfully they spurn The traitors kiss,—they are no hirelings sheep;ThoiTgh babe and mother by the hearth-side weep, They heed them not, and though tlieir sad hearts turn To home and friends in watches of the night,
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