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’Tis stillness now! A sudden stay Has check’d the wild wind on its way, As, screaming on its mother’s breast, At once the infant sinks to rest. And now, throughout the wood, that late Wav’d bending to the tempest’s weight, Nor could its depths an echo form, Save to the wailing of the storm; Nor bends a twig, nor breathes a breath: ’Tis silence, like the calm of death. ’Twould seem that winter had foregone, By wrong unsurp’d, his stormy throne, And giv’n the rightful sway again To mild October’s placid reign. Or rather He, whose boundless force Directs each month’s, each season’s course, Who formed creation’s works of old, And, what He form’d, hath still controll’d, Even He hath said, at whose high will The wind or swells or falls, “Be still!”
’Tis stillness now! A sudden stay Has check’d the wild wind on its way, As, screaming on its mother’s breast, At once the infant sinks to rest. And now, throughout the wood, that late Wav’d bending to the tempest’s weight, Nor could its depths an echo form, Save to the wailing of the storm; Nor bends a twig, nor breathes a breath: ’Tis silence, like the calm of death. ’Twould seem that winter had foregone, By wrong unsurp’d, his stormy throne, And giv’n the rightful sway again To mild October’s placid reign. Or rather He, whose boundless force Directs each month’s, each season’s course, Who formed creation’s works of old, And, what He form’d, hath still controll’d, Even He hath said, at whose high will The wind or swells or falls, “Be still!”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 571 · printed citation: Mant · subject: STILLNESS
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