Something yet more divine
Than the clear, pearly, virgin lustre shed
Forth from thy breast upon the river’s bed.
As from a shrine.
THE SONG OF PENITENCE.[431]
UNFINISHED.
[We learn from the Rev. R. P. Graves, that “The Song of Penitence,” if it had been finished in time, was intended for insertion among the “Scenes and Hymns of Life.”]
He pass’d from earth
Without his fame,—the calm, pure, starry fame
He might have won, to guide on radiantly