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By the Century's Deathbed
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I. I LEANT upon a paddock gate When shades were spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky |
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Like strings from broken lyres. And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. II. The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant, |
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His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard, and dry, And every spirit upon earth |
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Seemed fervourless as I. III. At once a voice outburst among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited. |
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An aged thrush, frail, thin, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. IV. So little cause for carollings |
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Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air |
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Some Blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware. |
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The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper.
1899, 29. Dezember, S. 956.
The British Newspaper Archive
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