Alone.
Ah/words are utterly in vain I No song '• May teltthe travail of the fiery soul. MymigUty, solitary how long! Afc>soothe me I soothe me with your "gfandiicontrol. \ I may not shafce the souls of stubborn Or thrill their shallow spirits through andthrbugb ; tf^ceforth I hide me in the deepest : 's-v?^:-glep%-' ■'r ;j^£faj^ along the lonely valleys i I may no^«?fle the steps of starry song, Or roll^ deep harmony from realm to / realm; V ■,■•• I may not mingle with the madding throng And bitterness would seem to over- -!■ wlelm. ■ spirit. Par away # " ; VVhers snowy height o'er height the : '% steeps ascend Or by the thunder of the boundless b ly tjnwearily I will wander to the end. ■ And if t find no fairer fellow till Ten-billion-trillion, aeons have overgone , ... 0 may I follow where My Master s will For ever and for ever leads me on, -•"■' ' Charles Osoar Palmer. Brentwood Farm, July 27,1902.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 226, 27 September 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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153Alone. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 226, 27 September 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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