---

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XV
Work rating: Low

Anon, ere yet his pleasure was aware
 Of other presence with him in that place,
 A growing murmur in the jubilant air,
 With hum of voices gathering apace,
 And laughter interchanged, and tones well known,
 And steps approaching him familiar--wise,
 And names that seemed an echo of his own,
 Broke on his musing. Turning in surprise
 He saw around him a gay company,
 Faces of kinsmen or of friends as near,
 But dead or changed or wed: all now in joy,
 Such as they showed him once in days more dear
 Ere yet his manhood had been touched with pain,
 Stood forth to greet him to their hearts again.
Source
The script ran 0.001 seconds.