Henry Alford Poems

Erewhile I saw ye faintly through far haze,
Spread many miles above the fields of sea;
Now ye rise glorious, and my steps are free
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Herbert and Crashaw, and that other name
Now dear as those, of him beneath whose eye
Arose ``the second Temple's'' honoured frame,
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Long have we toiled, and passed from day to day
Our stated round of duties till the mind
Reaches for change, and longs fresh paths to find
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When I behold thee, only living one
In whom God's image pure and clear I see,
Far beyond all in humble sanctity,
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Measuring with every year his usual round;
The merry bells that for our birthdays sound,
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There is a bright space in yon rolling cloud
Betokening the presence of the moon;--
Into the pure sky she will travel soon,
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Sleep, gentle love! and let the soothing dew
Of deepest quiet cover every sense;
Calm visions rise before thine inward view,
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'Twere better far from noon to eventide
To sit and feel sad care, and fence the while
The patient spirit for unwonted toil,
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Passing I saw her as she stood beside
A lonely stream between two barren wolds;
Her loose vest hung in rudely--gathered folds
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Welcome, stern Winter, though thy brows are bound
With no fresh flowers, and ditties none thou hast
But the wild music of the sweeping blast;
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