...Heaven," is caught in the only channel left open to it and pours itself forth in a religious sublimation. I fled Him, down the nights and down the days ; I...tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes, I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those...

...rough-cast still from Babel's bricklayers. As an example, we offer the opening lines of The Hound of Heaven. I fled Him, down the nights and down the days ; I...tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes I sped ; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those...

...celebrated Hound of Heaven (1893), a poem based upon Psalm cxxxix. 7-10, the introductory lines declare — I fled Him, down the nights and down the days ; I...Of my own mind, and in the mist of tears I hid from Him.i Thompson appeals largely to those who love poetry for its own sake, for its imagery and its splendid...

...just finished ; the book was lying open, and I was singing in music that was uniquely mine own — I fled Him down the nights and down the days, I fled...fled Him down the labyrinthine ways : Of my own mind — when suddenly I lifted up my eyes, and what a beautiful night all around me ! I put the light out,...

...and just so small as I? And what did it feel to be Out of Heaven and just like me? Ex Ore Infantum. I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; 1 fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears 1 hid from Him, and...

...of God, they are the sons of God." Who can escape the following, following, following love of God? "I fled Him down the nights and down the days. I fled...of tears I hid from Him and under running laughter, Up vista'd hopes I sped And shot precipitated Adown titanic glooms of shadowed fears From those strong...

...Good-bye ! yours is the day." When I got into my room I involuntarily started singing as before — I fled Him down the nights and down the days, I fled...fled Him down the labyrinthine ways : Of my own mind. That night I wept in bed, yet I know I felt infinite joy too. KG PEOPLE. IJOME people are like tall...

...DD, For Ever, p. 191. NOTES 223 CHAPTER II 1. See Francis Thompson's poem. The Hound of Heaven : — I fled Him down the nights and down the days, I fled...tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter, Up vistaed hopes I sped ; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears. From those...

...complete synthesis of the movements of English thought in the present day. In the first eight lines: "I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter:...

...knives thrust under the ribs of sensitive life. The burning sincerity of the sudden onset of the poem : I fled Him, down the nights and down the days ; I...tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. . Up vistaed hopes I sped ; And shot, precipitated Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those...