Janet Hamilton Poems

Damp and drear the lonely halls,
Faint the misty sunlight falls
Through the casement, soil'd and dim,
In the chambers, grey and grim.
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'I do well to be angry, even unto death,'
To denounce, to decry with unfaltering bre ...
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O power invincible of faith and love,
Like angel rising to his home above,
Thy heaven-lit features beam, calm, earnest grace,
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See yonder wretched little girl,
Braving cold, and want, and peril,
Wandering through the frozen street,
Seeking her she fears to meet;
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Yea, they who fear the Lord will often speak
To kindred souls their heavenward thoughts, and seek
That balm of heaven, a sympathy Divine
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Exhausted, faint, and pale,
A fair young mother lies-
She hears her babe's first wail,
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Swept the storm of battle by,
'Neath Virginia's glowing sky;
Left alone to bleed and die,
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A happy child, a girl of ten,
When autumn's golden tints were glowing,
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The pride o' the clachan, the rose o' the glen,
The flower o' oor lasses was Mary Muiren;
Sae modest, an' mensefu', an' winsome was she,
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The aul' kirkyard!-the aul' kirkyard!-
Its crowdit graves an' mossy stanes;-
I've coft me there a lanely grave,
In whilk I houp to lay my banes.
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