About the form, so mournfully divine!
Oh! let thine image, as e’en then it rose,
Live in my soul for ever, calm and clear,
Making itself a temple of repose,
Beyond the breath of human hope or fear!
A holy place, where through all storms may lie
One living beam of dayspring from on high.
[430] This picture is in the possession of the Viscount Harberton, Merrion Square, Dublin.
COMMUNINGS WITH THOUGHT.
“Could we but keep our spirits to that height,