Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
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O ALL 1 wide places, far from feverous towns; | |
Great shining seas; pine forests; mountains wild; | |
Rock-bosomed shores; rough heaths, and sheep-cropt downs; | |
Vast pallid clouds; blue spaces undefiled— | |
Room! give me room! give loneliness and air— | 5 |
Free things and plenteous in your regions fair. | |
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White dove of David, flying overhead, | |
Golden with sunlight on thy snowy wings, | |
Outspeeding thee my longing thoughts are fled | |
To find a home afar from men or things; | 10 |
Where in His temple, earth o’erarched with sky, | |
God’s heart to mine may speak, my heart reply. | |
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O God of mountains, stars, and boundless spaces, | |
O God of freedom and of joyous hearts, | |
When Thy face looketh forth from all men’s faces, | 15 |
There will be room enough in crowded marts! | |
Brood Thou around me, and the noise is o’er, | |
Thy universe my closet with shut door. | |
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Heart, heart, awake! The love that loveth all | |
Maketh a deeper calm than Horeb’s cave, | 20 |
God in thee, can His children’s folly gall? | |
Love may be hurt, but shall not love be brave?— | |
Thy holy silence sinks in dews of balm; | |
Thou art my solitude, my mountain-calm! | |