Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Poems. I. Stars and GravesWilliam Walsham How (18231897)
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The mystery of Man;
He spake the strange things that he saw,
And thus it ran:—
The silent graves below:
A dream between—how quickly fled!—
Is all we know.”
The witnesses were there.
O’er the between a veil was thrown
He could not tear.
And heard the words he spake;
And in his soul with grief amazed
A fire outbreak.
They are not all we know;
The web of thy philosophy
I rend it so!”—
Behind and then before,—
And there, and there, for ever stand
Two wonders more.
The graves with grass are green:—
Christ cometh twice upon the earth;—
We live between!”