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First Line: Yet, rolling far up some green mountain-dale
Last Line: Who girds tired nature with unslumbering might.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Sea; Spring; Ocean


YET, rolling far up some green mountaindale,
Oft let me hear, as ofttimes I have heard,
Thy swell, thou deep! when evening calls the bird
And bee to rest; when summer-tints grow pale,
Seen through the gathering of a dewy veil;
And peasant-steps are hastening to repose,
And gleaming flocks lie down, and flowercups close
To the last whisper of the falling gaie.
Then 'midst the dying of all other sound,
When the soul hears thy distant voice profound.
Lone worshipping, and knows that through the night
'Twill worship still, then most its anthemtone
Speaks to our being of the Eternal One,
Who girds tired nature with unslumbering might.





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