SEE what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built Cot, Whose smoke, forth-issuing whence and how it may, Shines in the greeting of the sun's first ray Like wreaths of vapour without stain or blot. The limpid mountain rill avoids it not; And why shouldst thou? -- If rightly trained and bred, Humanity is humble, finds no spot Which her Heaven-guided feet refuse to tread. The walls are cracked, sunk is the flowery roof, Undressed the pathway leading to the door; But love, as Nature loves, the lonely Poor; Search, for their worth, some gentle heart wrong-proof, Meek, patient, kind, and, were its trials fewer, Belike less happy. -- Stand no more aloof! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KEENAN'S CHARGE by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 66. AL-I'HLAS by EDWIN ARNOLD KINDLY VISION by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM THE CHANCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ON A GRAVE IN THE FOREST by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A CAROL: STANDARD OF THE CROSS by HARRIET BREWER THE WORLD I AM PASSING THROUGH by LYDIA MARIA CHILD |