| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Rondeaux.
III. “He does not come” | | By Charles Dent Bell (1819–1898) |
| | | HE does not come, although I pray | |
| From sombre eve to morning grey; | |
| Either my voice he cannot hear | |
| In that untroubled happier sphere, | |
| Or cannot force to me his way. | 5 |
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| Ah, they but mock us when they say, | |
| The dead revisit realms of day, | |
| Or ever to our sight appear,— | |
| He does not come! | |
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| Yet eager was he to obey | 10 |
| What on his heart I pleased to lay; | |
| And if he heard, he would stand here | |
| Before me in the moonlight clear, | |
| Though only for an hour his stay,— | |
| He does not come! | 15 | | | |
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