Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SUMMER MORNING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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A SUMMER MORNING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One set apart in days of old
Last Line: Who worships in the morning gates.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Summer


ONE set apart in days of old
From crowded haunts and mortal eyes,
Saw gates, like leaves of pearl unfold,
And heard the harps of Paradise,
While o'er his thoughts, a hallowed spell,
The present sense of heaven, fell.

So, shimmering through the mountain mist
I, too, a miracle behold:
A temple, brave with amethyst,
And opal tints and gleams of gold,
In mystic beauty deigns to rear
Its pomps of pillared splendor here.

Fair house of God, not made with hands,
Thy walls are laid beneath the sea;
Thy glittering arches span the lands
In light aerial symmetry;
Thy dome is crowned with living fire,
Thou long enchantment of desire.

And far along thy sweeping nave
Are fragrant censers swinging low;
And sweet from solemn architrave
The blending echoes meet and flow—
As bird and flower, awakening, pour
Their rapture through thine open door.

O silver dawn! O listening hush!
O kindling glory of the morn!
What beauty in the roseate flush,
What sheen of gems on leaf and thorn!
How near to God the spirit waits
Who worships in the morning gates.





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