SONNETS
III. ST. CATHERINE OF LEDBURY
SONNETS
WHEN human touch (as monkish books attest) Nor was applied nor could be, Ledbury bells Broke forth in concert flung adown the dells, And upward, high as Malvern’s cloudy crest; Sweet tones, and caught by a noble Lady blest To rapture! Mabel listened at the side Of her loved mistress: soon the music died, And Catherine said, “Here I set up my rest.” Warned in a dream, the Wanderer long had sought A home that by such miracle of sound 10 Must be revealed:–she heard it now, or felt The deep, deep joy of a confiding thought; And there, a saintly Anchoress, she dwelt Till she exchanged for heaven that happy ground. 1835.