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O SWALLOW, with resistless wing, that hold'st the air in fee, O swallow, with thy joyous sweep o'er earth and sunlit sea, O swallow, who, if night were thine, would'st wheel amongst the stars, Why linger round the eaves? Unhappy! free of all the world hast knit thy soul to clay? And glued thy heart up on the wall, thou swiftest child of day? Claim, glorious wing, thy heritage; break, break thy prison bars, Nor linger round the eaves.
Sweep, glorious wings, adown the wind; fly, swallow, to the west; Before thee, life and liberty; behind, a ruined nest. Blow, freshening breeze, sweep, rapid wing, for all the winds are thine, The nest is only clay. The rapid wings were stretched in flight, the swallow sped away, And left its nest beneath the eaves, the much-loved bit of clay, Turned with the sun, to go where'er the happy sun might shine, And passed into the day.
A THOUSAND year is nought to prayer, One day, so GOD it will: So the chapel fair, in GOD'S clear air, Looks calmly from its hill;
And true and bold the schoolhouse old Before it sentinel, With close at hand a trusty band Of comrades guards it well.
Each morn they meet, the young, young feet, They lightly come and go, A changeful stream, that still doth seem The same, and still doth flow.
The stream shall run while shines the sun, And still the buttressed stone Shall hear the beat of young, young feet, And count them all its own.
The fair sun shone, but ghastly and wan There came a spectral dream; The stone stood fast, but a dim fear passed Through buttress, and roof, and beam:
With sad, sad heart life did depart, A ghostly silence fell; With sad, sad heart they turned to depart, And--farewell, home, farewell.
DARKEST clouds drop tender rain, Every leaf and blade is fain Its own jewel to obtain From the casket of its pain.
And the thunder, black as night, Down descends in orbs of white, For the sun to fill with light, Tiny chambers of his might.
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