Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALL SAINTS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: They are flocking from the east
Last Line: And praise in mouth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Saints


THEY are flocking from the East
And the West,
They are flocking from the North
And the South,
Every moment setting forth
From realm of snake or lion,
Swamp or sand,
Ice or burning.
Greatest and least,
Palm in hand
And praise in mouth,
They are flocking up the path
To their rest,
Up the path that hath
No returning.
Up the steeps of Zion
They are mounting,
Coming, coming,
Throngs beyond man's counting;
With a sound
Like innumerable bees
Swarming, humming,
Where flowering trees
Many-tinted,
Many-scented,
All alike abound
With honey, --
With a swell
Like a blast upswaying unrestrainable
From a shadowed dell
To the hill-tops sunny, --
With a thunder
Like the ocean when in strength
Breadth and length
It sets to shore.
More and more
Waves on waves redoubled pour
Leaping flashing to the shore;
Unlike the under
Drain of ebb that loseth ground
For all its roar.

They are thronging
From the East and West,
From the North and South;
Saints are thronging, loving, longing,
To their land
Of rest,
Palm in hand
And praise in mouth.





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