Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ORGANIST, by HENRY CHAPPELL


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First Line: Soft thro' the chancel casement
Last Line: Before the great white throne.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Paradise


SOFT thro' the chancel casement,
The moonbeams silver light
Falls on the silent organ
And o'er the head so white,
Of him who sits at the keyboard
In all the world alone,
And waits the spirits calling
To wake its solemn tone.

With loving touch he wakens
Low tender chords to life,
As tho' of angels weeping
O'er earth's dark sin and strife.
While mid the thronging shadows,
Sad voices wailed and fled,
The music died to silence,
Low dropped the tired head.

Then welled thro' the starry pathway
A pean so sweet and long,
It seemed as tho' the organ
Sobbed forth its soul in song.
And on the wondrous music
His soul to Heaven hath flown
To swell for aye the anthems
Before the great white Throne.





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