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To the place where my childhood had dwelt - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]

The fern and the bramble grew wild in the hall - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]

The wild bird flew scared from her desolate stone - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]

May for ever be hushed in the homesteads of earth - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]

Though the dreams and the dwellings of childhood decay - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]

Vain is the blood of rare and spotless herds - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

In meads where blue Clitumnus shines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Diamonds sought in deep Brazilian mines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Rich as a Grecian sunset's purest dyes - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

That roam on thrice ten thousand hills - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

The choicest ores and gems are dross - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Whose inmost soul hard bondage racks and wrings - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

The poorest serf who fears a tyrant's nod - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

An offering far beyond the wealth of kings - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Which no stain of guilt has ever soiled - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]


Poet at the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site.


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