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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