Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1688/Poetry

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POETRY.

⁠"And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking
in the garden in the cool of the day." — Genesis iii. 8.

Ah, the most ancient time,
⁠When God and man were friends,
And earth was rounded with a summer clime,
⁠And the dull doubt that lends
Sorrow to life was all a thing unknown.
⁠Before those hours had flown
God walked at eventide thro' Eden's shade
⁠And spoke to man, and man was not afraid.

Cannot that time return?
⁠Is it not here, for those
Who from the strong still work of God can learn
⁠His grandeur of repose?
A day with him is as a myriad years,
⁠A tear outweighs the spheres,
And as he walked 'neath Eden's mystic tree
⁠In the cool eventide he walks with me.

⁠Athenæum.Mortimer Collins.⁠

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