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One winter eve at twilight when the sound	A
Of sorrowful winds scarce troubled Nature's rest	B
As she lay sleeping with her hair unbound	A
Holding her grey robe to her shivering breast	B
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I enter'd through a low arch'd oaken door	C
Circled with curious sculpture and I crept	D
With slow hush'd footsteps o'er the shadow'd floor	C
Where organ notes in sudden silence slept	D
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Far down the aisle where darkness seem'd to brood	E
With such wide spreading wings and where the sigh	F
Of murmur'd prayer scarce came until I stood	G
In the deep stillness of the Baptistry	C
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There in the dim side chapel no bright glow	H
From jewelled windows on the wall was shed	I
No sunbeams rested on the font below	H
Or kiss'd those mighty arches overhead	I
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Soft lines and curves went upward and were lost	J
In solemn shadow and in dreamy space	K
Only the level floor was faintly crost	J
With glimmering brightness from the holy place	K
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And as I listen'd I heard music sweet	J
Trembling and swelling through the soundless air	C
Threading dark aisles as if an angel's feet	J
Were bidden bring God's message to me there	C
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Ah and the echo of those anthem notes	L
Wanders and whispers in my heart for aye	F
In all my life the mystic language floats	L
Fitful and faint as in my ears that day	J
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One whom we knew had enter'd into rest	J
Calm on the pillow lay his hoary head	J
And through that music spoke in accents blest	J
Our holy Mother's voice hallowing the dead	J
Telling of perfect peace of labours done	M
Of long years' sorrow turned to joy at last	J
The quiet sleep when battles all are won	M
The hush of evening when the day is past	J
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I look'd upon the font and mused of all	N
Its wondrous meaning till my thoughts grew dim	O
And vast and shadowy as those columns tall	N
Morning of life for me death's night for him	O
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How fancy tried to span that awful space	K
Between the two between the here and there	C
To bridge the nave up to that blessed Place	K
Where light and song stream'd on the chancel stair	C
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Dim recollections drifted through my brain	P
Echoing footfalls of past childish years	Q
When the baptismal robe had less of stain	P
E'en though unwash'd by penitential tears	R
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I saw the gloomy shadows o'er my head	J
And sigh'd to think how I had suffer'd loss	S
I saw the soft light and was comforted	J
I knew it shone straight from the chancel cross	S
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A few more steps and then I stood below	H
The towering minster coronet again	T
Down on my face that pure and gentle glow	H
Fell like a pitying kiss in time of pain	P
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Down to my feet it stream'd a passage dim	O
With hosts of phantom shapes on either side	J
It drifted through as songs of seraphim	O
Drift through our mourning hearts at Easter tide	J
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Looking up then I seem'd to see my life	U
A long dim vista where the rays descend	J
Where light and darkness wage continual strife	U
But only light the full light at the end	J

Ada Cambridge

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