Poems and Fancies Author:Edward Everett Hale General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Subjects: Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. I... more »t has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE THREE ANNIVERSARIES SHORT is the day, and night is long; But he who waits for day In darkness sits not quite so long, And earlier hails the twilight gray, -- A little earlier hails the ray, That drives the mists of night away. So was this land cold, dead, and drear, When to the rock-bound shore That Pilgrim band, Christ-led, drew near, The promise of a new-born year, -- Twilight, which shows that even here The sun of gladness shall appear, The land be dark no more. So was the world dark, drear, and wild, When on that blessed morn A baby on his mother smiled. The dawning comes, the royal child. The Sun of life, is born. The lengthening days shall longer grow, Till summer rules the land; From Pilgrim rills full rivers flow, -- Roll stronger and more grand. So, Father, grant that year by year The Sun of Righteousness more clear To our awaiting hearts appear, And from his doubtful East arise The noonday Monarch of the skies, -- Till darkness from the nations flies; Till all know him as they are known, Till all the earth be all his own. December 25,1847. THE MACEDONIAN [One of the vessels sent with corn to Ireland in the famine of 1849 was the Macedonian.] From shore to shore The legions pour Which Alexander sends upon their hostile way; The Macedonian stands elate to watch the bold array. There where those stood In days of blood Paul sleeps in peace...« less