Poem by Alice Meynell

Veneration of Images

Thou man, first-comer, whose wide arms entreat,
    Gather, clasp, welcome, bind,
Lack, or remember; whose warm pulses beat
    With love of thine own kind:—

Unlifted for a blessing on yon sea,
    Unshrined on this highway,
O flesh, O grief, thou too shalt have our knee,
    Thou rood of every day!

1. The October Redbreast
2. A Comparison in a Seaside Field
3. Spring on the Alban Hills
4. The Lover Urges the Better Thrift
5. The Watershed (for R. T.)

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