Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/Continuation of Orestes' Soliloquy

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Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 301-302


V.

CONTINUATION OF ORESTES' SOLILOQUY.

Hark! in the trembling leaves
Mysterious whispers: hark! a rushing sound
Sweeps through yon twilight depth!—e'en now they come,
They throng to greet their guest! and who are they
Rejoicing each with each in stately joy,
As a king's children gather'd for the hour
Of some high festival! Exultingly,
And kindred-like, and godlike, on they pass,
The glorious wandering shapes! aged and young,
Proud men and royal women! Lo my race,
My sire's ancestral race!