Lanterna Rally

Author: Augusta Cooper Bristol

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Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781331370468

Excerpt from A Spray of Cosmos: Poems The All-Pervading God I walked with Nature alone one day, And sought to discern the sound, That murmured up from the growing shrub And leafy tongues around, The field-bell opened her yellow hood, To let me look in her eye, And the king-cups lifted their heads to bow, Whenever I sauntered by; The faintest noise of a sighing breath From the heart of the rose came up, And I bent my ear to the musical hum In the blue-bells tiny cup; And clustered violets, faint and dim, Were stooping so near the sod, That I knew by the daisy's tearful eye, They whispered together of God. I walked in the woodlands solemn shade, Where gums and dew-drops drip; Where mosses embrace the dead old trees, And kiss with a clinging lip; The brave old oak, - the monarch oak, Swung forward his giant arm, And the infant trees at his gesture wide, Waved shivering with alarm; They knew, perhaps, that a mighty theme Their forest king had stirred; And stiff and solemn the hemlocks stood, As if they too had heard; The tasselled pine, with a trembling moan, Reeled forward and back in the air, And threw her quivering fingers up About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.