Algernon Charles Swinburne,
Studies in Song — Off Shore
(1880)
“ Was the joy in the soul of the singers that hailed thee for master and lord. Fair father of all In thy ways that have trod, That have risen at thy call, That have thrilled at thy nod, Arise, shine, lighten upon me, O sun that we see to be God. As my soul has been dutiful Only to thee, O God most beautiful, Lighten thou me, As I swim through the dim long rollers, with eyelids uplift from the sea. ”
Algernon Charles Swinburne,
Studies in Song — Off Shore
(1880)
“ They float in the path of the sunbeams, as flakes or as blossoms of snow. Till the sea's ways darken, And the God, withdrawn, Give ear not or hearken If prayer on him fawn, And the sun's self seem but a shadow, the noon as a ghost of the dawn. ”
Algernon Charles Swinburne,
Studies in Song — Off Shore
(1880)
“ Earth, water, and air are transfigured, and rise as one risen from the dead. He puts forth his hand, And the mountains are thrilled To the heart as they stand In his presence, fulfilled With his glory that utters his grace upon earth, and her sorrows are stilled. ”
