Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | London | | East London | | Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| | | ’T WAS August, and the fierce sun overhead | |
| Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green, | |
| And the pale weaver, through his windows seen | |
| In Spitalfields, looked thrice dispirited; | |
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| I met a preacher there I knew, and said, | 5 |
| “Ill and o’erworked, how fare you in this scene?” | |
| “Bravely!” said he; “for I of late have been | |
| Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.” | |
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| O human soul! as long as thou canst so | |
| Set up a mark of everlasting light, | 10 |
| Above the howling senses’ ebb and flow, | |
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| To cheer thee, and to right thee if thou roam, | |
| Not with lost toil thou laborest through the night! | |
| Thou mak’st the heaven thou hop’st indeed thy home. | | | | |
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