| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | Heaven and Earth | | By Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809–1861) |
| | | GOD, who with thunders and great voices kept | |
| Beneath Thy throne, and stars most silver-paced | |
| Along the inferior gyres, and open-faced | |
| Melodious angels round,—canst intercept | |
| Music with music,—yet, at will, has swept | 5 |
| All back, all back, (said he in Patmos placed) | |
| To fill the heavens with silence of the waste | |
| Which lasted half-an-hour! Lo I, who have wept | |
| All day and night, beseech Thee by my tears, | |
| And by that dread response of curse and groan | 10 |
| Men alternate across these hemispheres, | |
| Vouchsafe us such a half-hour’s hush alone, | |
| In compensation for our stormy years! | |
| As heaven has paused from song, let earth from moan. | | | | |
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