Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By John Henry Newman (18011890)Waiting for the Morning
THEY are at rest: | |
We may not stir the heaven of their repose | |
With loud-voiced grief, or passionate request, | |
Or selfish plaint for those | |
Who in the mountain grots of Eden lie, | 5 |
And hear the fourfold river as it hurries by. | |
They hear it sweep | |
In distance down the dark and savage vale; | |
But they at eddying pool or current deep | |
Shall never more grow pale; | 10 |
They hear, and meekly muse, as fain to know | |
How long untired, unspent, that giant stream shall flow. | |
And soothing sounds | |
Blend with the neighbouring waters as they glide; | |
Posted along the haunted garden’s bounds | 15 |
Angelic forms abide, | |
Echoing as words of watch, o’er lawn and grove, | |
The verses of that hymn which seraphs chant above. | |