When every old grey limestone wall

And crumbling tower and rocky height

Caught the last gleam of level light,

And in the west a crimson glow

Flushed the high cloud-field’s broken floe,

And deepening shades encompassed us,

And domes of coral cumulus

Above the mountains far away

In opal waters mirrored lay,

Ours was a land of rose and grey.

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SHELTER AND FELLOWSHIP

In the midst of life unknown,

In

Spaces boundless, pathways lone,

Earth of things that pass and fade

Homely shelter round us made,—

Dropped a veil of changing light

O’er the changeless infinite,

Over the unfathomed drew

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