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With silent awe I hail the sacred morn, Which slowly wakes while all the fields are still; A soothing calm on every breeze is borne, A graver murmur gurgles from the rill, An echo answers softer from the hill, And softer sings the linnet from the thorn, The skylark warbles in a tone less shrill: Hail, light serene! Hail, sacred Sabbath morn! The rooks float by in silent, airy drove; The sun a placid yellow lustre shows; The gales that lately sighed along the grove, Have hushed their downy wings in dead repose; The hovering rack of clouds forgets to move: So smiled the day, when the first morn arose!
With silent awe I hail the sacred morn, Which slowly wakes while all the fields are still; A soothing calm on every breeze is borne, A graver murmur gurgles from the rill, An echo answers softer from the hill, And softer sings the linnet from the thorn, The skylark warbles in a tone less shrill: Hail, light serene! Hail, sacred Sabbath morn! The rooks float by in silent, airy drove; The sun a placid yellow lustre shows; The gales that lately sighed along the grove, Have hushed their downy wings in dead repose; The hovering rack of clouds forgets to move: So smiled the day, when the first morn arose!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Dr. Leyden (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 512 · printed citation: Dr. Leyden · subject: SABBATH
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