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Language: English
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It was a chilly winter's night;
And frost was glitt'ring on the ground,
And evening stars were twinkling bright;
And from the gloomy plain around
Came no sound,
But where, within the wood-girt tow'r,
The churchbell slowly struck the hour;
As if that all of human birth
Had risen to the final day,
And soaring from the wornout earth
Were called in hurry and dismay,
Far away ;
And I alone of all mankind
Were left in loneliness behind.
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Language: English
Translation(s): FRE
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See other settings of this text. Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable): - FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Paix", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
My soul, there is a country
[Afar]1 beyond the stars,
Where stands a wingèd sentry
All skilful in the wars:
There, above noise and danger
Sweet Peace sits [crown'd]2 with smiles
And One, born in a manger
Commands the beauteous files.
He is thy gracious Friend
And -- O my soul, awake! --
Did in pure love descend
To die here for thy sake.
If thou canst [get]3 but thither,
There grows the [flower]4 of Peace,
The Rose that cannot wither,
Thy fortress and thy ease.
Leave then thy foolish ranges,
For none can thee secure
But One who never changes,
Thy God, thy life, thy cure.
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1 Dyson, Parry: "Far"
2 Parry: "crowned"
3 Dyson: "go"
4 Parry: "flow'r"
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