A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

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Met that unclouded joyous gaze,

As torches that have bumt all night

Through some impure and godleu rite,

Encounter morning's glorioas rays.

:But, hark I the vesper calla to prnyer,

All slow the orb of daylight eeta,

Is rising sweetly on the air

From Snu.'s tbouaand minarets I •

The boy has started from the bed

Of tlowers, where he had laid hia head,

And down upon the fragrant sod

Kneels, with his foreli63d to the •ou~

Lisping the etemalname of God

:E'rom Purity's own cherub mouth,

.And looking, while his hands a.nd eyes

Are liftM to the glowing akie~~,

Like a stray babe of Paradise

Just lighted on that liow'ry plain,

And aeeking for ite home as-in.

Oh! 'twas a aight-that heaven-that child-

A acene, which might have well beguiled

Ev'n haughty Eblis of a sigh

For glories foet and peace gone by I

And now felt !uJ, the wretched mnn

Reclining there-while memory ran

O'el' mau,y a year of guilt and strife,

Flew o'er the dark ftood of hia life,

Nor foUDd one mnny resting-place,

Nor brought him back one branch of graee.

"There 'IIKU a time," he said in mild,

He~~.rt-bumbled tones-" thou blesaed child I

" When, young and haP.PY• pure as thou,

"I look'd and pl'&y'd hke thee-but now--''

He hung his head-each nobler Aim,

.Acd hope, and feeling, which had slept

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