A Canticle
Oh come, ye daughters of Jerusalem!
Come with your timbrels and your songs of joy,
To hail the sparkling-footed morn, that brings
Her flagons, ‘plenish’d from the wells of light,-
From hills of myrrh and Carmel’s fragrant brow.
Come while she comes, kindling the dewdrop stars.
The fear, the shadow, and the snare are gone-
The blossoms smile-and with glad faces now
The lilies shine.-Hark! from the hills afar
Melodious bleat the lamb; while o’er the stream
The hart looks pleas’d towards yon far-seen rock,
Where the blithe shepherd in the sunshine sings,
“Awake, my love-my fair one-come away!”
(John Galt)
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