Inspiration
Anita
Stuart
Stuart, Anita
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DVPP Project Team
Fralick
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Miss A. Stuart was paid 10s 6d for the poem, and gives no address (NLS Dep 341/371). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
6
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It is not in the solitary place,
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Inspiratio
n.
It is not in the solitary place,
Where breezes blow across untrodden sward
And shy wild-birds frequent the open space,
That best is heard the message of the Lord.
Nor yet upon the weed-strewn, rocky shore,
Where waves toss up their flying clouds of spray,
And high above the mighty ocean’s roar
Shrills out the whistling wind unceasingly.
The dreamful quiet lulls the mind to rest,
The winds and waves chase other thoughts away,
And Inspiration’s voice is heard the best
When sounding through the duty of the day ;
For well-accustomed duties leave the mind
At leisure, calm, receptive, unconfined.
Anita Stuart
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