Songs of Siluria Author:E. M. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GRAVE. LLANSAINTFREAD. HANDS crossed in prayer, feet laid toward the dawn, Beneath the patriarch yew-tree's sheltering dusk, And within hearing o... more »f thy murmurous Usk, Rest thou in peace profound, Silurian Vaughan. Again the hills are holy, and the lawn That girds the pilgrim stream on either side More holy than the haunt of pard and faun, Since there its priest and prophet lived and died. For where of old men deemed a stealthy Pan Possessed the hill, the thicket and the lea, Thy wistful eye discerned the Son of Man, And taught thy faithless brothers how to see. Thou art their ministering angel now, And Wordsworth's spiritual father, thou ! THE BRECON BEACONS. SUNRISE. HOW still the air and those twin peaks that soar Into the vault serene ! we lose the voice Of Nature and of God in turbulent noise Of restless thoughts as in the din and roar Of some tumultuous city, set light store .By sacred stillness. Nowadays men flee From their own heart as from an enemy, Dreading the shadow of the Evermore. Silence ! be thou my teacher : raise and calm, Revive and strengthen ; wake the spiritual ear Morning by morning, till it learn to hear The accents of thy inarticulate psalm. Within this mountain temple thou art priest; And lo ! thine altar, flaming to the East. THE BRECON BEACONS. FRATERNAL LOVE. IN lines of beauty, curves of infinite grace, Your massive bulwarks rise above the plain, Beacons of Brecon ! in that ye are twain Lies half the secret of your loveliness. In close fraternal union, rich to bless And to uphold, twin brothers lived, and here Loving and loved, thro' many a youthful year Gained strength and courage for life's arduous race. Fair was their gracious boyhood, deep and strong Their mutual trust that knew not change nor close. Their twofold ...« less