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Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 [1859], The adopted daughter and other tales. (J.B. Smith and Company, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf487T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
BY MARY MIDDLETON. An angel now is speeding This wide world o'er and o'er, As it hears the voice of wailing Like ocean's ceaseless roar— It comes from low roofed hovels, It comes from palace halls, An endless-endless chorus Upon the heart it falls! What tears of woe and sorrow, And anguish hath it seen— What broken hearts still bleeding, And graves still fresh and green— The fairest home is desolate, The brightest hopes have fled, And many loved most fondly Have gone down to the dead! Millions of bones are bleaching Within the drunkard's tomb Wild flowers have wreathed them over, Yet oh, how deep their gloom—
Murder—and crime—and poverty— Linked here—man's direst foes Have gathered all their weapons From this forge of endless woes! Oh blessed—blessed angel— We welcome thee to earth— And hope for it, a happier day, A new and brighter birth— When sealed up every Fountain That flows with liquid sin, How glad a day from that blest time Would here on earth begin!
Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 [1859], The adopted daughter and other tales. (J.B. Smith and Company, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf487T]. |
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