POETIC PEARLS,

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

SHELDON FUND
JULY 10, 1940

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by
R. S. Rhodes,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

I

THE POET'S STAR-TUNED HARP TO SWEEP.

E. B. Browning.

THERE

HERE ARE IN THIS LOUD STUNNING TIDE

OF HUMAN CARE AND CRIME,
WITH WHOM THE MELODIES ABIDE

OF THE EVERLASTING CHIME;
WHO CARRY MUSIC IN THEIR HEART
THROUGH DUSKY LANE AND WRANGLING MART,

PLYING THEIR DAILY TOIL WITH BUSIER FEET,

BECAUSE THEIR SECRET SOULS A HOLY STRAIN REPEAT.

T. Keble.