The book The Paschal : Poems for Passion-Tide And Easter was written by author A Cleveland Arthur Cleveland Coxe Here you can read free online of The Paschal : Poems for Passion-Tide And Easter book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Paschal : Poems for Passion-Tide And Easter a good or bad book?
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ig. Shone the sun, that Easter-Monday, O'er the new-grown grass and green, O'er the pleasant slopes of Greenwich And the sports that there were seen : But, while youth around me frolicked In that holiday of Spring, Sat I by an ancient sailor. With the sailor gossiping. Told he me how, under Nelson, From the Indies to the Nile, Served he, till at fierce Trafalgar, He had seen his dying smile : How he whisper'd — " Kiss me. Hardy," How in death he laid him down: But he sigh'd that such a hero Fou...ght not under Jesu's Crown. 144 THE ROYAL YARN. 3- Changed his gossip as I questioned How his sailor-life, so free. Him had made so good a Christian : " 'Twas the royal yarn," quoth he. " Through my life, that thread is woven ; With my christ'ning it began ; Everywhere, that kingly token Marks my story, boy and man." 4- " Now, you know," quoth he, " good Master, How the royal yarn is sign That the Crown claims all that bears it, Canvass,_ cordage, rope, and twine ; So, one time, I heard the parson Say, by Faith we might discern Woven in our life and fortunes Christ our Saviour's royal yarn : ' S- " How we are His Crown's possession, Marked for Him ; and by this clue We may trace His grace and goodness Running all our lifetime through.
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