| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs in Minor Keys (1884)
VI. Sonnet: A Day in June | | By Christina Catherine Fraser-Tytler (Mrs. Edward Liddell) (1848– ) |
| | “Out of heaven from God.”
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 | 5 |
| 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. | |
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| So when the Glory of the Godhead came | |
| Long years ago and trod the paths of men, | 10 |
| 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. | | | | |
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