The Sabbath, Sabbath Walks, and Other Poems (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857. Excerpt: ... Up he ascends, and, from the rolling side, Surveys the tumult of the sea and sky With transient look severe: The tempest, awed, Sinks to a sudden calm; the clouds disperse; The moon-beam trembles on the face divine, Reflected mildly in the unruffled deep. THE DUMB CURED. His eyes uplifted, and his hands close clasped, The dumb man, with a supplicating look, Turned, as the Lord passed bv: Jesus beheld, And on him bent a pitying look, and spake: His moving lips are by the suppliant seen, And the last accents of the healing sentence Ring in that ear which never heard before. Prostrate the man restored falls to the earth, And uses first the gift, the gift sublime, Of speech, in giving thanks to him, whose voice Was never uttered but in doing good. THE DEATH OF JESUS. 'Tis finished: he spake the words, and bowed His head, and died.--Beholding him far off, They, who had ministered unto him, hope, --'Tis his last agony: The Temple's vail Is rent; revealing the most holy place, Wherein the cherubims their wings extend, O'ershadowing the mercy-seat of God. Appalled, the leaning soldier feels the spear Shake in his grasp; the planted standard falls Upon the heaving ground: The sun is dimmed, And darkness shrouds the body of the Lord. THE RESURRECTION. The setting orb of night her level ray Shed o'er the land, and, on the dewy sward, The lengthened shadows of the triple cross Were laid far-stretched, --when in the east arose, Last of the stars, day's harbinger: No sound Was heard, save of the watching soldier's foot: Within the rock-barred sepulchre, the gloom Of deepest midnight brooded o'er the dead, The holy one; but, lo a radiance faint Began to dawn around his sacred brow: The linen vesture seemed a snowy wreath, Drifted by storms into a mountain cave: Bright, a...