Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-12-23
Oh HOLMES NEW POEM.
Homesiek I'm Heaven.

&c seek thine earth born sisters.-thus the Voice
Ykes. o ", while the bosfs Of Heaven rejoice,
Smile never: ask them what their sorrows be;
AID when the secret Of their griefs they tell.
Paw what thou vast on Earth: thou snowsst we'll:
30 shall they cease from un.vailing signs.
why thus, apart,-the swift winged herald
Sit ye with silent lips and unstrung Tyres,
while the trissEion' blending chorsls wake
In shouts Of Joy from all the heavenly ehoirsS
-ChiGs not Thy sisters,-thus the answer Came
Children Of earth our hslf-w eansd nature clings
Do earths fond memories, and h IT whispered name
Ghtunes cur qnivering lips, our saddened strings;
For there we love and where We love is home,
none that our feet may leave, but not our hearts
fhrnsh o'er US shine the jasper lighted dome
1he CHAIN may lengtheD, but 10 never parts
Sometimes a sunlit sphere comes rolling by,
And hen We softly whisper,-Can il be-
And leaning ward the silvery orb, We try
TO hear the music OF it's murmuring sea;
Teach, Ierchance, some flashing glimpse Of green;
sr breathe some wildwood fragrance, waited
The opsniuR gates of pearl, that fold between
The binding sPendors and ths chsns.lsss blue.
-ssy sister, nay, 8 single falling leaf
IIEefsd from the BEACH q twelve fruited tree,
MS pierced thy thTobbing heart
Hsi my siiIa i babe was rudely torn;
Ga forget h m IN my life new borns
VI thSt MY DARING lay upon ny breast!
Ard thoue-
Wa. = fair and won't hf nj bride.
Tie kiss of love stlii burns D IA ny cheek,
\. whom worshipsd, ever at my -ide,
u In through the spirit realm in vain seek.
Sweet faces tur8 their beaming eyes on mine:
Al not in these the wished for look real;
Sill fCr hat one dear human smile pine;
Thou and none Ott er lis the lJyyr creed.
Are whence tiy sadness in a world of bliss
where never parting comes. nor m9urner's tosrs
Art thou. toe dreaming Of n mOrtal's kiss
AMID the seraphs Os the heavenly sphereS
Nay, tax not me with passions wasting fire;
" len the rVift m ssage set my spirit free,
RlIs, helpless. lone left ry gray hair d sire:
Ny friends were many, be had none ssvem
left him, orphaned, in the stsrless night;
Alas, for him no che eFful morning dawn
wear the ransomed spirit'S robe OF white,
Yet still hear him moaning, She is gone
-Yeknow me not, sweet sisters9-AII invain
Ye sch your lost in the shapes they wore.
1hs flower once opened may not bud again,
The fruit once fallen finds the stem no M IRE.
Gkild, lover, sre,-yea, all things loved below
Fan pictures damasked GA vapOr : fold
Bsde Ike the rOseate flush, the golden glow,
when the bright curtain Of the day is rolled.
was the babe that slumbered on fky breast
And sister, niue the lip, that called thee bride.
Nine we're the silvered 'oc ks thy hand cares ed
That faithful hand, my faltering footsteps gside,
Zach changing form, frail vssture fdecay
The scul unclsd FOR gets il oncs hath worn,
1ts ined with the trsvel Of the weary day,
And sh4med with rents from every way.ide thorn.
To lie, an infant, in thy fond embrace
To come with love warm kisse. back TO fhes,-
+. shsw thine eyes thy gray haired father q face,
Not Heaven ltseIf could grant; this may not bel
Tkef spread your folded wings, ana leave TO earth
The dust once breathing ye have molrned 80 lone
Ard sorrow discOrds sweeten into soagl
January "A tiGattr.