The Poetical Works of Henry Alford Dean of Canterbury
The Poetical Works of Henry Alford Dean of Canterbury
Henry Alford
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Wordsworth and Dr. Arnold, should suc- ceed in restoring crosses by our road-sides, much good might follow, and no harm that we know of. ' Thus wrote the Edinburgh Review in 1836. But all who 16 242 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. By shady resting-place, or hollow bank Where curved the streamlet, or on peeping rock, Rose sweetly to the traveller's humble eye The Cross in every corner of our land ; When from the wooded valleys morn and eve Passed the low murmur of the angel-bell ; Methinks I could have... led a peaceful life Daily beneath the triple-vaulted roof Chanting glad matins, and amidst the glow Of mellow evening towards the village-tower Pacing my humble way ; most like to that He in the spirit from the lonely isle Saw, the beloved Apostle, round the throne And Him that sat thereon, glad companies Resting not day nor night their song of praise. Go ye about and search set up a place And fetch a compass in the brightest fields, And by the dwelling of the mighty sea, The everlasting witness ; go and seek The sweetest flower that ever bloomed on earth ; See ye search well, for this our land hath borne Full many a fragrant cluster there hath come From other times its sweet remembrance down ; 'Tis low, but ye may scent it from afar, And ye may know its presence where it blooms, Even in the faces of the men ye meet, And in the little children.
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