| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| ATHWART the sky a lowly sigh | |
| From west to east the sweet wind carried; | |
| The sun stood still on Primrose Hill; | |
| His light in all the city tarried; | |
| The clouds on viewless columns bloomed | 5 |
| Like smouldering lilies unconsumed. | |
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| “Oh sweetheart, see! How shadowy, | |
| Of some occult magician’s rearing, | |
| Or swung in space of heaven’s grace | |
| Dissolving, dimly reappearing, | 10 |
| Afloat upon ethereal tides | |
| St. Paul’s above the city rides!” | |
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| A rumor broke through the thin smoke, | |
| Enwreathing abbey, tower, and palace, | |
| The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares, | 15 |
| The million-peopled lanes and alleys, | |
| An ever-muttering prisoned storm, | |
| The heart of London beating warm. | |
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