Emily Jane Pfeiffer (Эмили Джейн Пфайффер)
A Protest
This is the sabbath season of the year, When summer silence falleth on the earth, — When truce hath come to husbandry and mirth, To mower's scythe and wanton wood-notes clear. The world is still, as if with holy fear, And from its heart, through lily-bell and rose, A stream of incense rises up, and flows God wards with soft repinings for his ear. And I would with the sabbath world take rest, Could breathe my life out with the summer's sigh; Could lay it at God's feet if, dispossest, My soul might feed new life as glad as high; But of no dweller on this earth unblest, — This fair, lost world, where mortals love and die!
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