The courtship of Miles Standish . JOHN ALD&N Into the open air John Alden, perplexed and bewildered,Rushed like a man insane, and wandered alone by the sea-side;Paced up and down the sands, and bared his head to the east wind,Cooling his heated brow, and the fire and fever within as out of the heavens, with apocalyptical splendors,Sank the City of God, in the vision of John the Apostle,So, with its cloudy walls of chrysolite, jasper, and sapphire,Sank the broad red sun, and over its turrets upliftedGlimmered the golden reed of the angel who measured the city. 65 JOHN ALDEN Welcome,
The courtship of Miles Standish . JOHN ALD&N Into the open air John Alden, perplexed and bewildered,Rushed like a man insane, and wandered alone by the sea-side;Paced up and down the sands, and bared his head to the east wind,Cooling his heated brow, and the fire and fever within as out of the heavens, with apocalyptical splendors,Sank the City of God, in the vision of John the Apostle,So, with its cloudy walls of chrysolite, jasper, and sapphire,Sank the broad red sun, and over its turrets upliftedGlimmered the golden reed of the angel who measured the city. 65 JOHN ALDEN Welcome, 0 wind of the East! he exclaimed in his wild exultation, Welcome, O wind of the East, from the caves of the misty Atlantic!Blowing oer fields of dulse, and measureless meadows of sea-grass,Blowing oer rocky wastes, and the grottos and gardens of ocean!Lay thy cold, moist hand on my burning forehead, and wrap meClose in thy garments of mist, to allay the fever within me! Like an awakened conscience, the sea was moaning and tos
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