tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935662058758102231.post7439036635912550380..comments2024-03-20T11:21:16.856-04:00Comments on Heneghan’s Dunwoody Blog: City of Dunwoody 2012 Retreat RecapJohn Heneghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046846808671417720noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935662058758102231.post-47043877236536147552012-01-30T15:24:06.922-05:002012-01-30T15:24:06.922-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Hire_A_Veteranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08717573166404888300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935662058758102231.post-38918051615215424572012-01-23T07:23:28.895-05:002012-01-23T07:23:28.895-05:00The Retreat
Happy those early days! when I
Shin’d...The Retreat<br /><br />Happy those early days! when I<br />Shin’d in my angel-infancy.<br />Before I understood this place<br />Appoint’d for my second race,<br />Or taught my soul to fancy ought<br />But a white, celestial thought,<br />When yet I had not walk’d above<br />A mile, or two, from my first love,<br />And looking back (at that short space,)<br />Could see a glimpse of his bright face;<br />When on some gild’d cloud or flower<br />My gazing soul would dwell an hour,<br />And in those weaker glories spy<br />Some shadows of eternity;<br />Before I taught my tongue to wound<br />My conscience with a sinful sound,<br />Or had the black art to dispence<br />A sev’ral sin to ev’ry sense,<br />But felt through all this fleshly dress<br />Bright shoots of everlastingness.<br /><br />O how I long to travel back<br />And tread again that ancient track!<br />That I might once more reach that plain,<br />Where first I left my glorious train,<br />From whence th’enlightened spirit sees<br />That shady city of palm trees;<br />But (ah!) my soul with too much stay<br />Is drunk, and staggers in the way.<br />Some men a forward motion love,<br />But I by backward steps would move,<br />And when this dust falls to the urn<br />In that state I came return.<br /><br />Henry VaughanDaughter of the Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00570983561978292707noreply@blogger.com