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The Shepherd’s Song on the Lord’s Day

Translation of Walter William Skeat

THE LORD’S own day is here!

Alone I kneel on this broad plain:

A matin-bell just sounds; again

’Tis silence, far and near.

Here kneel I on the sod:

Oh, deep amazement, strangely felt!

As though, unseen, vast numbers knelt

And prayed with me to God.

Yon heaven, afar and near,—

So bright, so glorious seems its cope

As though e’en now its gates would ope;—

The Lord’s own day is here!