Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Songs in Minor Keys (1884). VI. Sonnet: A Day in JuneChristina Catherine Fraser-Tytler (Mrs. Edward Liddell) (1848 )
“Out of heaven from God.”
C
They call it lightly a fine summer’s day,
But breathing Nature knows it; not one spot
But trembles at the knowledge. Every spray
From garden unto forest at its lot
Smiles in the stillness, and the veil away
’Twixt earth and sky, earth’s confines are forgot;
Praise shakes the world, too near its God to pray.
Long years ago and trod the paths of men,
They called Him prophet, and His words of flame
The poet’s madness. Earth at her Lord’s name
Was speechless; but ’twas hers alone to hide
Her widowed face in darkness, when He died.