Son-Days

.                    1 Bright shadows of true Rest! some shoots of bliss,               Heaven once a week;

The next world's gladness prepossest in this;               A day to seek;

Eternity in time; the steps by which We Climb above all ages;

Lamps that light Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich,

And full redemption of the whole week's flight.                    2 The Pulleys unto headlong man; time's bower;                    The narrow way;

Transplanted Paradise;

God's walking hour;                    The Cool o'th' day;

The Creatures' Jubilee;

God's parle with dust;

Heaven here;

Man on the hills of Myrrh, and flowers;

Angels descending; the Returns of Trust;

A Gleam of glory, after six-days'-showers.                    3 The Church's love-feasts;

Time's Prerogative,                     And Interest Deducted from the whole;

The Combs, and hive,                     And home of rest.

The milky way chalked out with suns; a clue That guides through erring hours; and in full story A taste of Heav'n on earth; the pledge, and cue Of a full feast:

And the Out Courts of glory.