| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Rest | | By John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
| | | THEY are at rest. | |
| We may not stir the heaven of their repose | |
| By rude invoking voice, or prayer addrest | |
| In waywardness to those | |
| Who in the mountain grots of Eden lie, | 5 |
| And hear the fourfold river as it murmurs by. | |
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| They hear it sweep | |
| In distance down the dark and savage vale; | |
| But they at rocky bed or current deep | |
| Shall never more grow pale. | 10 |
| They hear, and meekly muse, as fain to know | |
| How long untired, unspent, that giant stream shall flow | |
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| And soothing sounds | |
| Blend with the neighb’ring waters as they glide; | |
| Posted along the haunted garden’s bounds, | 15 |
| Angelic forms abide, | |
| Echoing, as words of watch, o’er lawn and grove, | |
| The verses of that hymn which seraphs chant above. | | | | |
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