William Henry Giles Kingston Holy Poems

• 1. Hymn To The Night
  I heard the trailing garments of the Night
  Sweep through her marble halls!
  I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
  From the celestial walls!
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• 2. The Terrestrial Paradise. From Dante, Purgatorio, Xxviii
  Longing already to search in and round
  The heavenly forest, dense and living green,
  Which to the eyes tempered the new-born day,
  
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• 3. Footsteps Of Angels
  When the hours of Day are numbered,
  And the voices of the Night
  Wake the better soul, that slumbered,
  To a holy, calm delight;
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• 4. Voices Of The Night. Prelude
  Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
  And winds were soft and low,
  To lie amid some sylvan scene,
  Where, the long drooping boughs between,
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• 5. The Celestial Pilot. From Dante's Purgatorio, Ii
  And now, behold! as at the approach of morning
  Through the gross vapours, Mars grows fiery red
  Down in the west upon the ocean floor.
  
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• 6. Hymn Of The Moravian Nuns Of Bethlehem, At The Consecration Of Pulaski's Banner
  When the dying flame of day
  Through the chancel shot its ray,
  Far the glimmering tapers shed
  Faint light on the cowled head;
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