- Interlude
From Poems, by Ellen Sturgis Hooper (Published Privately, [Edward William Hooper, 1872]) The Tappan Papers, BMS AM 1221, Houghton Library, Harvard University, AC8.H7663.872P
Ye stand there with your sweet and lofty presences in the cool evening,And as I return from the busy social scene,Ye draw me, as one who says, "I have a message to deliverWhen thou art still and ready"—
Ready—oh no! my soul is not now for you,They ring yet around and within me—those voices I have left—
Those voices that summon me again for tomorrow—
I see you, ye trees, I hear your soft sighing,As one who listens to far off strains of musicOr to tomes which speak of that, his soul faints to hear of,But between him and those sounds are busy and curious tonguesWhich talk to him and through him, but never with him— I must on through the dust. [End Page 105]
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