Poems on Various Subjects (Coleridge)/Effusion 25, to Domestic Peace

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

EFFUSION XXV.

TELL me, on what holy ground
May Domestic Peace be found?
Halcyon Daughter of the skies,
Far on fearful wings she flies,
From the pomp of scepter'd State,
From the Rebel's noisy hate.

In a cottaged vale She dwells
List'ning to the Sabbath bells!
Still around her steps are seen
Spotless Honor's meeker mien,
Love, the fire of pleasing fears,
Sorrow smiling through her tears,
And conscious of the past employ
Memory, bosom-spring of Joy.