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WOLFE OF THE KNOLL.

  Yon point that, while we speak, away
  Has melted in the twilight gray,
  Thy Gracious Maker hides from thee.
  In love, the things which yet must be !
  And we — were it not well to look
  No further now in Fate's dark book,
  But turn a backward glance the while
  On the past fortunes of our isle !


Stand we by Wolfe upon the knoll, and turn us to the sea ;
There, where the waves like breakers roll in foam so wild
  and free,
Stood the first church the old man knew, though parish re-
  cords say
That many a goodlier one before the tide had swept away.
Even yet the shepherds deem they hear, of a still Easter
  morn,
The chiming of the bells full clear from the deep waves up-
  borne,