James Grahame Poems

Dear to my soul! ah, early lost!
Affection's arm was weak to save:
Now friendship's pride, and virtue's boast,
Have come to an untimely grave!
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How still the morning of the hallow'd day!
Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd
The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
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Six days the heavenly host, in circle vast,
Like that untouching cincture which enzones
The globe of Saturn, compass'd wide this orb,
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How dazzling white the snowy scene! deep, deep,
The stillness of the winter Sabbath day, -
Not even a foot-fall heard. - Smooth are the fields,
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When homeward bands their several ways disperse,
I love to linger in the narrow field
Of rest, to wander round from tomb to tomb,
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Blind, poor, and helpless Bartimeus sat,
Listening the foot of the wayfaring man,
Still hoping that the next, and still the next,
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Who
is my mother, or my brethren?
He spake, and look'd on them who sat around,
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While wind and rain drive through the half-stripped trees,
Fanners and flails go merrily in the barn.
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Through boughs still leafless, or through foliage thin,
The sloping primrose-bed lies fair exposed,
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Intense the viewless flood of heat descends
On hill, and dale, and wood, and tangled brake,
Where, to the chirping grasshopper, the broom,
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