Ada Cambridge
The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems
(1913)
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THE HAND IN THE DARK AND OTHER POEMS.
BY
ADA CAMBRIDGE.
LONDON:
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1913
Copyright 1913
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CONTENTS:
The Hand in the Dark
Sanctuaries
On Australian Hills
By a Norfolk Broad
At Sea
The Watchman and the Night.
The Watchman
The Night
The Fieldfares and the Lighthouse
The Winged Mariners
To-morrow
Mirage
A Prayer
Sic Vos Non Vobis
Motherhood.
An Old Doll
Granny
The Virgin Martyr
Mates
The Vain Question
At Long Last
The Magic Wand
Craven-Heart
The Future Verdict
Good-Bye
Sonnets.
Influence
Individuality
Contentment
Vows
Desire
Outcast
Drunk
Fashion
The Mob
Wasted
Honour
Despair
Faith
Peace
THE HAND IN THE DARK.
The Hand in the Dark
How calm the spangled city spread below!
How cool the night! How fair the starry skies!
How sweet the dewy breezes! But I know
What, under all their seeming beauty, lies.
That million-fibred heart, alive, is wrung
With every grief that human creatures fear.
Could its dumb anguish find a fitting tongue
The very dead within their graves would hear.
It calls me from my rest, that voiceless wail
Of Lazarus at the gate--my kith and kin
Whose cruise and cake, and staff and beacon, fail--
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