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Last Line: At rest from labour on the sabbath day
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


Lord, by what inconceivable dim road
Thou leadest man on footsore pilgrimage!
Weariness is his rest from stage to stage,
Brief halting-places are his sole abode.
Onward he fares thro' rivers over overflowed,
Thro' deserts where all doleful centuries rage;
Onward from year to year, from age to age,
He groans and totters onward with his load.
Behold how inconceivable his way;
How tenfold inconceivable the goal,
His goal of hope deferred, his promised peace:
Yea, but behold him sitting down at ease,
Refreshed in body and refreshed in soul,
At rest from labour on the Sabbath Day.





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