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    Across the Sea and Other Poems.
    Across the Sea and Other Poems.
    Across the Sea and Other Poems.
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    Across the Sea and Other Poems.

    By Thomas S. Chard

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Across the Sea and Other Poems. - Thomas S. Chard

      Project Gutenberg's Across the Sea and Other Poems., by Thomas S. Chard

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Across the Sea and Other Poems.

      Author: Thomas S. Chard

      Release Date: June 13, 2006 [EBook #18574]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ACROSS THE SEA AND OTHER POEMS. ***

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      ACROSS THE SEA

      And Other Poems.

      By

      Thomas S. Chard.

      Now just as the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold the City shone like the sun; the streets also were paved with gold, and in them walked many men, with crowns on their heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps to sing praises withal. * * * And after that they shut up the gates; which, when I had seen, I wished myself among them.

      —Pilgrim's Progress.

      Chicago:

      Jansen, McClurg & Company.

      1875.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

      JANSEN, McCLURG & CO.,

      In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

      PREFACE.

      The poem whose name gives title to this little volume, was published in outline in the winter of 1869, and now appears for the first time as completed. The sea, as a picture of life, has been celebrated by the poetic thought of all ages, and the author will therefore hardly hope to offer much that is new in the following verses. His only excuse for so worn a theme is, that the world still loves the picture, and that each generation can, at best, but reset the old jewels of the past.

      CONTENTS.

      Across the Sea,

      The Seven Sleepers,

      A Legend of St. John,

      The Blessed Vale.

      ACROSS THE SEA.

      Inscribed to

      David Swing.

      ACROSS THE SEA.

      I.—CHILDHOOD.

      Ah! who can speak that country whence I fled?

      None but a lover may its beauty know,

      None but a poet can its rapture sing;

      And e'en his muse, upborne on Fancy's wing,

      Will grieve o'er beauties still unnoticed,

      O'er raptures language is too poor to show.

      Fore'er remains the land where children dwell,

      Earth's fairest mem'ry and its Palestine;

      Tho' years have passed since on my forehead there

      Were graven lines of weariness and care,

      Still on the silver string of memory oft I tell

      The golden beads of joy that once

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