Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO JANE, by RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD



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First Line: Alone sat hagar in the wild
Last Line: Of hagar in the wilderness.
Subject(s): Hagar


Alone sat Hagar in the wild—
Alone with Ishmael, her child—
And through the sultry mid-day air
Sent up to Heaven her earnest prayer.

Oh lovely Hagar! keen thy woe—
Thine agony that few may know;
Yet, though forsaken and alone,
One star benignant on thee shone;
And, as thy gaze was turned on high,
Its light made all thy anguish fly.

Oh, lovely Hagar! keen thy woe,
But God forbade thy tears to flow.

Remember her example, Jane!
When comes, as come it will, the pain
Of broken faith and heart-felt wrong,—
For these, alas, to life belong!

When dark thy sky, when woes assail,
Bend not before the chilling gale;
But upward turn thine eyes to Him
Whose love nor change nor death can dim.

However dark thy way may be,
The same bright star will shine on thee
That turned to joy the bitterness
Of Hagar in the wilderness.





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