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Oh how I love with melted soul to leave The house of prayer, and wander in the fields Alone! what though the opening air be chill! Although the lark, checked in his airy path, Eke out his song, perched on the fallow clod That still o’ertops the blade; although no branch Have spread its foliage, save the willow wand That dips its pale leaves in the swollen stream. What though the clouds oft lower; their threats but end In summer showers, that scarcely fill the folds Of moss-couched violets, or interrupt The merle’s dulcet pipe—melodious bird! He hid behind the milk-white sloe-thorn spray, (Whose early flowers anticipate the leaf,) Welcomes the time of buds, the infant year. Sweet is the sunny nook to which my steps Have brought me, hardly conscious where I roamed, Unheeding where—so lovely all around, The works of God arrayed in vernal smile.
Oh how I love with melted soul to leave The house of prayer, and wander in the fields Alone! what though the opening air be chill! Although the lark, checked in his airy path, Eke out his song, perched on the fallow clod That still o’ertops the blade; although no branch Have spread its foliage, save the willow wand That dips its pale leaves in the swollen stream. What though the clouds oft lower; their threats but end In summer showers, that scarcely fill the folds Of moss-couched violets, or interrupt The merle’s dulcet pipe—melodious bird! He hid behind the milk-white sloe-thorn spray, (Whose early flowers anticipate the leaf,) Welcomes the time of buds, the infant year. Sweet is the sunny nook to which my steps Have brought me, hardly conscious where I roamed, Unheeding where—so lovely all around, The works of God arrayed in vernal smile.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Grahame (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 685 · printed citation: Grahame · subject: WORKS—WORK
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