HEAR

Who present, past) and future sees ;.

Whose ears have heard

The Holy Word

That walked among the ancient trees;

Calling the lapsed soul,

And weeping in the evening dew;

That might control

The starry pole,

And fallen, fallen light renew!

"O Earth, O Earth, return!
Arise from out the dewy grass!

Night is worn,

And the morn

revenial

Rises from the slumb'rous mass, une l

"Turn away no more ;
Why wilt thou turn away?
The starry floor,

The watery shore, see of Tiene

Are given thee till the break of day."

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From the darkness dread and drear,

Her light fled,

Stony, dread,

And her locks covered with grey despair.

“Prisoned on watery shore,

Starry jealousy does keep my den

Cold and hoar :

Weeping o'er,

I hear the father of the ancient men,

"Selfish father of men !

Cruel, jealous, selfish fear!

Can delight,

Chained in night,

The virgins of youth and morning bear?

"Does spring hide its joy,

When buds and blossoms grow?

Does the sower

Sow by night,

Or the ploughman in darkness plough?

"Break this heavy chain, lesh

That does freeze my bones around!
Selfish, vain,

Eternal bane,

That free love with bondage bound.”

THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE.

"LOVE seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a heaven in hell's despair."

So sang a little clod of clay,

Trodden with the cattle's feet.

But a pebble of the brook

Warbled out these metres meet :

"Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,

Joys in another's loss of ease,

And builds a hell in heaven's despite."

And their sun does never shine,

And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns : It is eternal winter there.

For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babes should never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appal.