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O many and many a day before we met, I knew some spirit walked the world alone, Awaiting the Belovèd from afar; And I was the anointed chosen one Of all the world to crown her queenly brows With the imperial crown of human love. I knew my sunshine somewhere warmed the world, And I should reach it, in His own good time Who sendeth sun, and dew, and love for all.... Earth, with her thousand voices, talked of thee— Sweet winds, and whispering leaves, and piping birds, The hum of happiness in summer woods, And the light dropping of the silver rain; And standing as in God’s own presence-chamber. When silence lay like sleep upon the world, And it seemed rich to die, alone with Night, Like Moses ’neath the kisses of God’s lips, The stars have trembled thro’ the holy hush, And smiled down tenderly, and read to me The love hid for me in a budding breast, Like incense folded in a young flower’s heart.
O many and many a day before we met, I knew some spirit walked the world alone, Awaiting the Belovèd from afar; And I was the anointed chosen one Of all the world to crown her queenly brows With the imperial crown of human love. I knew my sunshine somewhere warmed the world, And I should reach it, in His own good time Who sendeth sun, and dew, and love for all.... Earth, with her thousand voices, talked of thee— Sweet winds, and whispering leaves, and piping birds, The hum of happiness in summer woods, And the light dropping of the silver rain; And standing as in God’s own presence-chamber. When silence lay like sleep upon the world, And it seemed rich to die, alone with Night, Like Moses ’neath the kisses of God’s lips, The stars have trembled thro’ the holy hush, And smiled down tenderly, and read to me The love hid for me in a budding breast, Like incense folded in a young flower’s heart.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Gerald Massey (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 125 · printed citation: Gerald Massey · compiler notes excluded
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