Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

The First Fathers

Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875)

THEY rear’d their lodges in the wilderness,

Or built them cells beside the shadowy sea,

And there they dwelt with angels, like a dream!

So they unroll’d the Volume of the Book

And fill’d the fields of the Evangelist

With thoughts as sweet as flowers.