Longing + 

Away from the City’s Herds! + 

Away from the city’s herds! + 

Away from the noisy street! + 

Away from the storm of words, + 

Where hateful and hating meet! + 

Away from the vapour grey, + 

That like a boding of ill + 

Is blotting the morning gay, + 

And gathers and darkens still! + 

Away from the stupid book! + 

For, like the fog’s weary rest, + 

With anger dull it fills each nook + 

Of my aching and misty breast. + 

Over some shining shore, + 

There hangeth a space of blue; + 

A parting ’mid thin clouds hoar + 

Where the sunlight is falling through. + 

The glad waves are kissing the shore + 

Rejoice, and tell it for ever; + 

The boat glides on, while its oar + 

Is flashing out of the river. + 

Oh to be there with thee! + 

Thou and I only, my love! + 

The sparkling, sands and the sea! + 

And the sunshine of God above! + 