VOICE OF SOLITUDE. 297 



" And here, while the night winds round me sigh, 

 And the stars burn bright in the midnight sky, 

 As I sit apart by the desert stone, 

 Like Elijah at Horeb's cave alone, 



1 A still small voice ' comes tlrrough the wild 



(Like a father consoling his fretful child), 



Which banishes bitterness, wrath, and fear, 



Saying Man is distant but God is near." 



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