Richard Chenevix Trench Light Poems

• 1. The Onward Course
  Our course is onward, onward into light:
  What though the darkness gathereth amain,
  Yet to return or tarry both are vain.
  How tarry, when around us is thick night?
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• 2. After The Battle
  WE crownâ??d the hard-won heights at length,
  Baptizâ??d in flame and fire;
  We saw the foemanâ??s sullen strength,
  That grimly made retireâ??
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• 3. Sonnet 02
  I stood beside a pool, from whence ascended,
  Mounting the cloudy platforms of the wind,
  A stately heron; its soaring I attended,
  Till it grew dim, and I with watching blind--
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