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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Songs in Minor Keys (1884). VI. Sonnet: A Day in June

Christina Catherine Fraser-Tytler (Mrs. Edward Liddell) (1848– )

COME down amongst us, and men know it not!

They call it lightly a fine summer’s day,

But breathing Nature knows it; not one spot

But trembles at the knowledge. Every spray

From garden unto forest at its lot

Smiles in the stillness, and the veil away

’Twixt earth and sky, earth’s confines are forgot;

Praise shakes the world, too near its God to pray.

So when the Glory of the Godhead came

Long years ago and trod the paths of men,

They called Him prophet, and His words of flame

The poet’s madness. Earth at her Lord’s name

Was speechless; but ’twas hers alone to hide

Her widowed face in darkness, when He died.