Pause

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="THE_PAUSE" id="THE_PAUSE"></SPAN>THE PAUSE.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">There is a pause in nature, ere the storm<br/></span> <span class="i2">Rushes resistless in its awful might;<br/></span> <span class="i0">There is a softening twilight, ere the morn<br/></span> <span class="i2">Expands her wings of glory into light.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">There is a sudden stillness in the heart,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ere yet the tears of wounded feeling flow;<br/></span> <span class="i0">A speechless expectation, ere the dart<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of sorrow lays our fondest wishes low.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">There is a dreamy silence in the mind,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ere yet it wakes to energy of thought;<br/></span> <span class="i0">A breathless pause of feeling, undefined,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ere the bright image is from fancy caught.<br/></span> <span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">There is a pause more holy still,<br/></span> <span class="i2">When Faith a brighter hope has given,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And, soaring over earthly ill,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The soul looks up to heaven!<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />