Richard Chenevix Trench

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Richard Chenevix Trench Light Poems

  • 1.
    Our course is onward, onward into light:
    What though the darkness gathereth amain,
    Yet to return or tarry both are vain.
    How tarry, when around us is thick night?
    ...
  • 2.
    WE crownâ??d the hard-won heights at length,
    Baptizâ??d in flame and fire;
    We saw the foemanâ??s sullen strength,
    That grimly made retireâ??
    ...
  • 3.
    I stood beside a pool, from whence ascended,
    Mounting the cloudy platforms of the wind,
    A stately heron; its soaring I attended,
    Till it grew dim, and I with watching blind--
    ...
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