A gallery of famous English and American poets . shable spheres have wrought May with that issue be compared),Throngs of celestial like water in the breeze, A holy sadness shared. Lo ! while I speak, the laboring SunHis glad deliverance has begun: The cypress waves her sombre plumeMore cheerily; and town and vineyard and the olive-bower, Their lustre reassume! 0 Ye, who guard and grace my homeWhile in far-distant lands we roam. What countenance hath this Day, put on for you ?While we looked round with favored eyes,Did sullen mists hide lake and skies And mountains f
A gallery of famous English and American poets . shable spheres have wrought May with that issue be compared),Throngs of celestial like water in the breeze, A holy sadness shared. Lo ! while I speak, the laboring SunHis glad deliverance has begun: The cypress waves her sombre plumeMore cheerily; and town and vineyard and the olive-bower, Their lustre reassume! 0 Ye, who guard and grace my homeWhile in far-distant lands we roam. What countenance hath this Day, put on for you ?While we looked round with favored eyes,Did sullen mists hide lake and skies And mountains from your view? Or was it given you to beholdLike vision, pensive though not cold. THE ECLIPSIj; OF THE SUK. 143 From the smooth breast of gay Winandermere ?Saw ye the soft yet awful veilSpread over Grasmeres lovely dale, Helvellvns brow severe ? I ask in vain,—and know far lessIf sickness, sorrow, or distress Have spared my Dwelling to this hour;Sad blindness! but ordained to proveOur faith in Heavens unfailing love And all-controlling
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