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When groves by moonlight silence keep, And winds the vexed waves release, And fields are hushed, and cities sleep,— Lord! is not this the hour of Peace? When Infancy at Evening tries By turns to climb each Parent’s knees, And gazing meets their raptured eyes,— Lord! is not this the hour of Peace? In golden pomp when autumn smiles; And every vale its rich increase In man’s full barns exulting piles;— Lord! is not this the hour of Peace? When Mercy points where Jesus bleeds, And Faith beholds thine anger cease; And Hope to black despair succeeds;— This, Father! this alone is Peace!
When groves by moonlight silence keep, And winds the vexed waves release, And fields are hushed, and cities sleep,— Lord! is not this the hour of Peace? When Infancy at Evening tries By turns to climb each Parent’s knees, And gazing meets their raptured eyes,— Lord! is not this the hour of Peace? In golden pomp when autumn smiles; And every vale its rich increase In man’s full barns exulting piles;— Lord! is not this the hour of Peace? When Mercy points where Jesus bleeds, And Faith beholds thine anger cease; And Hope to black despair succeeds;— This, Father! this alone is Peace!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Gisborne (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 436 · printed citation: Gisborne · subject: PEACE
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