Excerpt from Pictures of Europe, Framed in Ideas
The Two Journeys.
Forth to the East! Revivings of the day
Break, pouring promised strength upon my way;
Another line thy weary footsteps pressed;
Thy sun of life was lowering to the West.
Ah, gracious Nature! ah, soul-cheering Art!
Was it for this you did your healing part, -
Lengthening my lease for destiny so poor,
To see his ashes carried from his door?
O earthly father! whom the heavenly gave,
And yet can from the mortal sentence save,
Thou wilt forgive the sigh that dumps my songs,
To think that title all to Heaven belongs.
Sad tears, with joyful, dropped from me apace,
While thou thy chequered history wouldst trace:
Thy words sublime, my parent, oft shall rise
To keep some blessed moisture in my eyes: -
"The hireling's day I have accomplished now;
The evening shadows gather on my brow;
The hireling for the shadows longs, my son:
They tell him that his task at last is done.
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