Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JULY ON THE MOUNTAINS (OR THE SNOWDON RANGER TRACK), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL


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First Line: There is sultry gloom on the mountain brow
Last Line: Like the wing of a snowy dove.
Subject(s): Snowdon (mountain), Wales


THERE is sultry gloom on the mountain brow
And a sultry glow beneath.
Oh, for a breeze from the western sea,
Soft and reviving, sweet and free,
Over the shadowless hill and lea,
Over the barren heath!

There are clouds and darkness around God's ways,
And the noon of life grows hot;
And though His faithfulness standeth fast
As the mighty mountains, a shroud is cast
Over its glory, solemn and vast,
Veiling, but changing it not.

Send a sweet breeze from Thy sea, O Lord,
From Thy deep, deep sea of love;
Though it lift not the veil from the cloudy height,
Let the brow grow cool and the footsteps light,
As it comes with holy and soothing might,
Like the wing of a snowy dove.





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