Religion
A Thought at Matins
From The Poetical Works (1899)
Religion
The sun fell fair on Kelly walls
On Maitland's christening-day,
And lighted up his father's halls
With autumn's loveliest ray:
The Angel of his Baptism trod
A path bright irom the home of God !
Shall it not be to us a sign —
A parable of joy —
That radiance from above will shine
Around our gentle boy ?
Since such the sun that greets his gaze,
This first-born of his Christian-days !
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Hawker, Robert Stephen. “A Thought at Matins.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hawker_rs/70/.
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Hawker, Robert Stephen. “A Thought at Matins.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hawker_rs/70/.
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