ALTAR whereon the lordly sacrifice Of incense from the reverent vales below Is offered at the dawn's first kindling glow And when the day's last smouldering ember dies, Around thee, too, the kindred sympathies Of life -- itself a vapor -- breathe and flow, And yearn beyond thy pinnacle of snow To wing the trackless region of the skies. Thy shadow broods above me, and mine own Sleeps as a child beneath it. O'er my dreams Thou dost, as an abiding presence, pour Thy spirit in the melancholy moan Of cavern winds and far-resounding streams, As sings the ocean to the listening shore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RIGS O' BARLEY by ROBERT BURNS HALLOWED GROUND by THOMAS CAMPBELL GOD by GABRIEL ROMANOVITCH DERZHAVIN THE SKELETON IN ARMOR by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: CHRIST'S REPLY by EDWARD TAYLOR |