A SUMMER MORNING PICTURE

by: Elizabeth Oakes-Smith (1806-1893)

      HE Sabbath morning from the night awoke
      All sunshine crowned: rough men disdaining toil
      Had cleared their brows from work-day's hardening moil
      And by the fountain left the cove'd yoke.
      Through morning-glory and the hollyhock,
      And rich nasturtium, shading with their coil
      The cottage window, and the heated soil,
      Aslant the white board floor the sunshine broke,
      And left a flowery tracery in the sheen.
      This inward gleam the children newly kempt,
      And genial matron, calm from work-day ways,
      Who sits with stately grace her flock between
      And sings a Sabbath hymm, meseems, exempt
      Like these from strife, Seraphim Legions join the praise.

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