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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations, To a young convert. (search)
To a young convert. Lulled by sweet words and lured by saintly charms, I see thy weary, wandering steps begin To enter where the Church spreads wide her arms, Arms that have clasped their many thousands in. From turret-windows and from high-arched door Looks many a face of saint and martyr dear: “Hail, Eve's lost daughter, Hevae filia exul. wanderer now no more! Earth's chill damp air shall never reach thee here! “Here Dante, Bayard, Catherine knelt in prayer; Come in! their great remembrance makes us strong.” Oh, enter not! for peril haunts the air Which even the loveliest lips have breathed too long. Come out upon the mountain tops with me! See the glad day break o'er their spires of blue! There lies within those cloisters' tracery A deadlier poison than in dankest dew. The Orient sun, that in that templed span Lit all of beauty saintliest eyes could see, Still falls in blessing on the humblest man Who works for freedom with a soul set free. In vain I thou canst not; yet th<