John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Epes Sargent. (18131881) (continued)
7156 When the night-wind bewaileth the fall of the year, And sweeps from the forest the leaves that are sere; I wake from my slumber and list to the roar And it saith to my spirit, No more, never more!
When the Night-wind bewaileth.
Christopher Pearse Cranch. (18131892)
7157 Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
Stanzas.
7158 We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
Stanzas.
7159 No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.
Oh Love supreme.
7160 O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
Oh Love supreme.
Joseph Edwards Carpenter. (1813 ?)
7161 What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song?
What are the wild Waves saying?