William Wilberforce Lord Poems

A LITTLE blind girl wandering,
While daylight pales beneath the moon,
And with a brook meandering,
To hear its gentle tune.
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FALLEN? How fallen? States and empires fall;
O'er towers and rock-built walls,
And perished nations, floods to tempests call
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FOR them, O God, who only worship Thee
In fanes whose fretted roofs shut out the heavens,
Let organs breathe, and chorded psalteries sound:
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REGENT of song! who bringest to our shore
Strains from the passionate land, where shapes of art
Make music of the wind that passes o'er,
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O GOLD Hyperion, love-lorn Porphyro,
Ill-fated! from thine orbëd fire struck back
Just as the parting clouds began to glow,
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