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It quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife;
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
Heaven unites again the links that Earth has broken!
For on Earth so much is needed, but in Heaven Love is all!
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the Organ,
And entered into mine. It may be that Death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heaven
I shall hear that grand Amen.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)