Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SON-DAYS, by HENRY VAUGHAN


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First Line: Bright shadows of true rest! Some shoots of bliss
Last Line: Of a full feast; and the out-courts of glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): Son-dayes
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sabbath; Sunday


Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss,
Heaven once a week;
The next world's gladness prepossessed in this;
A day to seek
Eternity in time; the steps by which
We climb above all ages; lamps that light
Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich
And full redemption of the whole week's flight.

2

The pulleys unto headlong man; time's bower;
The narrow way;
Transplanted Paradise; God's walking hour;
The cool o' th' day;
The Creatures' jubilee; God's parle with dust;
Heaven here; man on those hills of myrrh and flowers;
Angels descending; the returns of trust;
A gleam of glory, after six-days-showers.

3

The Church's love-feasts; time's prerogative
And interest
Deducted from the whole; the combs and hive,
And home of rest.
The milky way chalked out with suns; a clue
That guides through erring hours; and in full story
A taste of Heav'n on earth; the pledge and cue
Of a full feast; and the out-courts of glory.





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