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Lowell, James Russell - O dwellers in the valley land
Identifier
001482
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
The Poems of James Russell Lowell
O dwellers in the valley land
Who in deep twilight grope and cower
Till the slow mountain’s dial hand
Shortens to noon’s triumphal hour
While ye sit idle, do you think
The Lord’s great work sits idle too?
That light dare not o’erleap the brink
Of morn, because ‘tis dark with you?
Though yet your valleys skulk in night
In God’s ripe fields the day is cried
And reapers with their sickles bright
Troop singing down the mountain side
Come up and feel what health there is
In the frank Dawn’s delighted eyes
As, bending with a pitying kiss
The night shed tears of Earth she dries
The source of the experience
Lowell, James RussellConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
DawnEarth
Fields and meadows
Four seasons and the hours
Light
Mountain
Noon
Scythe
Shadow
Valley