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What household thoughts around thee, as their shrine, Cling reverently! Of anxious looks beguiled. My mother’s eyes upon thy page divine Were daily bent; her accents, gravely mild, Breathed out thy love;—whilst I a dreaming child, On breeze-like fancies wandered oft away To some lone tuft of gleaming spring flowers wild, Some fresh-discovered nook for woodland play, Some secret nest: yet would the solemn word At times with kindlings of young wonder heard, Fall on my wakened spirit, there to be A seed not lost; for which in darker years, O Book of Heaven! I pour, with grateful tears, Heart-blessings on the holy dead and thee.
What household thoughts around thee, as their shrine, Cling reverently! Of anxious looks beguiled. My mother’s eyes upon thy page divine Were daily bent; her accents, gravely mild, Breathed out thy love;—whilst I a dreaming child, On breeze-like fancies wandered oft away To some lone tuft of gleaming spring flowers wild, Some fresh-discovered nook for woodland play, Some secret nest: yet would the solemn word At times with kindlings of young wonder heard, Fall on my wakened spirit, there to be A seed not lost; for which in darker years, O Book of Heaven! I pour, with grateful tears, Heart-blessings on the holy dead and thee.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Hemans (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 66 · printed citation: Mrs. Hemans · subject: THE BIBLE
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