Hail, trackless waste! a heart made desolate
Speeds from a sterner solitude to thee!
O, let me, lost in contemplation, be
Among thy children numbered—at the gate
Of Mercy, meekly pleading, still to wait,
With lifted eye and penitential knee,
The silent herald of Eternity—
The swift, relentless messenger of Fate!
Heaven weeps not here o’er man’s ingratitude,
Where, from the heart perpetual fountains flow;
But Love, in cloudless majesty revealed,
Sustains the soul with Hope’s celestial food,
Till, life to Life, the flame supernal grows,
And dust to dust the parting spirit yield.
(John Bannister Tabb)
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