Come, I come! ye have called ...

Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
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 Felicia Hemans

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There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart
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Christ hath arisen! O mountain peaks, attest- Witness, resounding glen and torrent wave! The immortal courage in the human breast Sprung from that victory-tell how oft the brave To camp midst rock and cave, Nerved by those words, their struggling faith have borne, Planting the cross on high above the clouds of morn!
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 Felicia Hemans
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
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 Felicia Hemans
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
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 Felicia Hemans