England and Yesterday

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>VI.<br/><small>ON THE SAME (CONTINUED).</small></h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">Is this the end? Is this the pilgrim’s day</div> <div class="verse">For dread, for dereliction, and for tears?</div> <div class="verse">Rather, from grass and air and many spheres,</div> <div class="verse">In prophecy his spirit sinks away;</div> <div class="verse">And under English eaves, more still than they,</div> <div class="verse">Far-off, incoming, wonderful, he hears</div> <div class="verse">The long-arrested, the believing years</div> <div class="verse">Carry the sea-wall! Shall he, sighing, say:</div> <div class="verse">“Farewell to Faith, for she is dead at best</div> <div class="verse">Who had such beauty”? or, with kisses lain</div> <div class="verse">For witness on her darkened doors, go by</div> <div class="verse">With a new psalm: “O banished light so nigh!</div> <div class="verse">Of them was I, who bore thee and who blest:</div> <div class="verse">Even here remember me when thou shalt reign.”</div> </div></div> <hr> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />