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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 79045 ***</div>
+
+
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+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p>
+
+
+<h1>
+WINGS OF YOUTH
+</h1>
+
+
+<p class="center p2"><i>By</i></p>
+
+<p class="center p2 fs120">NANCY BUCKLEY</p>
+
+<figure data-role="presentation" class="figcenter illowp5" id="i1" style="max-width: 142.5625em;">
+ <img class="w100 p2" src="images/i1.jpg" alt="">
+</figure>
+
+<p class="center p4">THE CLOISTER PRESS</p>
+<p class="center fs80">SAN FRANCISCO</p>
+<p class="center fs80">1922</p>
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center">
+ <span class="fs80">COPYRIGHT 1922</span><br>
+ <span class="fs80">BY</span><br>
+ NANCY BUCKLEY<br>
+ SAN FRANCISCO
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>“<i>Youth took wings and flitted among the clouds for
+the very joy of being freed from the fetters of earth.</i>”</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a><a id="Page_5"></a>[Pg 5]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="FOREWORD">
+ FOREWORD
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>In this little book, “<i>Wings of Youth</i>,” her
+second collection of published verses, Nancy
+Buckley has sounded the tender and wistful
+and also the joyous note of the young heart. The
+fact that her first book, “Laughter and Longing,”
+published in 1921, is now in its third edition, is sufficient
+testimony to the quality of her verse and to
+the cultured discernment of Californians.</p>
+
+<p>A mellower tone than we found in her first collection
+distinguishes most of the verses in this volume.
+It shows the growth she has made in an earnest pursuit
+of her high purpose, and the wider and deeper
+range of powers she has discovered and is bringing
+forth.</p>
+
+<p>We need such a strong and wholesome spirit as
+hers. It will inspire hope and cheer and sane striving
+against the devastating forces that now, more than
+ever, tend to drag us from our view of a glorious sun
+always shining in the sky.</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+ W. C. Morrow.
+</p>
+
+<p>San Francisco, November, 1922.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a><a id="Page_7"></a>[Pg 7]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="Acknowledgement">
+ <i>Acknowledgement</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p><i>Acknowledgement is hereby made of the courtesy of
+American Poetry Magazine, The Nomad, Munsey’s
+Magazine, Argosy, All-Story Weekly, The Signet,
+The Queen’s Work, Social Progress, The Magnificat,
+New England Homestead, Education, The Californian,
+Newman Hall Review, Girlhood Days and
+Extension for permission to use in this volume poems
+originally contributed to these magazines.</i></p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a><a id="Page_9"></a>[Pg 9]</span></p>
+<p class="fs120 center"><i>TO MARY ELIZABETH</i></p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">
+ CONTENTS
+ </h2>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a><a id="Page_11"></a><a id="Page_12"></a>[Pgs 11-12]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<table class="autotable">
+<tbody>
+ <tr><td><a href="#WINGS"><i>Wings</i></a></td><td class="tdr">15</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_SINGERS"><i>The Singer</i></a></td><td class="tdr">16</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#DREAMERS"><i>Dreamers</i></a></td><td class="tdr">17</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_LITTLE_GYPSY"><i>The Little Gypsy</i></a></td><td class="tdr">18</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#TO_MY_FRIEND"><i>To My Friend</i></a></td><td class="tdr">19</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_NET"><i>The Net</i></a></td><td class="tdr">20</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#LOVES_WITCHERY"><i>Love’s Witchery</i></a></td><td class="tdr">21</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#MY_LITTLE_WINDOW"><i>My Little Window</i></a></td><td class="tdr">22</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#HOMESICK"><i>Homesick</i></a></td><td class="tdr">23</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#GIFTS"><i>Gifts</i></a></td><td class="tdr">24</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_INTERPRETER"><i>The Interpreter</i></a></td><td class="tdr">25</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_EASTER_BELL"><i>The Easter Bell</i></a></td><td class="tdr">26</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_LITTLE_OLD_HOUSE"><i>The Little Old House</i></a></td><td class="tdr">27</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#MY_SWEETEST_SONG"><i>My Sweetest Song</i></a></td><td class="tdr">28</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#HEART_O_MINE"><i>Heart O’ Mine</i></a></td><td class="tdr">29</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#SILVER_SHIPS"><i>Silver Ships</i></a></td><td class="tdr">30</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#A_GYPSYS_LONGING"><i>A Gypsy’s Longing</i></a></td><td class="tdr">31</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#CANDLES"><i>Candles</i></a></td><td class="tdr">32</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#A_SONG_WITHOUT_WORDS"><i>A Song Without Words</i></a></td><td class="tdr">33</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#RENDEZVOUS"><i>Rendezvous</i></a></td><td class="tdr">34</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#FOR_MARY_ELIZABETHS_BIRTHDAY"><i>For Mary Elizabeth’s Birthday</i></a></td><td class="tdr">35</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#OUR_LADY_OF_THE_FLOWERS"><i>Our Lady of the Flowers</i></a></td><td class="tdr">36</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_BEST_KIND_OF_A_GAME"><i>The Best Kind of a Game</i></a></td><td class="tdr">37</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#LIFES_SNARE"><i>Life’s Snare</i></a></td><td class="tdr">38</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#LITTLE_ROADS"><i>Little Roads</i></a></td><td class="tdr">39</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_SECRET_ROOM"><i>The Secret Room</i></a></td><td class="tdr">40</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#CYNTHIA_IN_HER_GARDEN"><i>Cynthia in Her Garden</i></a></td><td class="tdr">41</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#GRAY_EYES"><i>Gray Eyes</i></a></td><td class="tdr">42</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#A_LITTLE_GIRLS_GARDEN"><i>A Little Girl’s Garden</i></a></td><td class="tdr">43</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_MARTYR"><i>The Martyr</i></a></td><td class="tdr">44-45</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#TRYST"><i>Tryst</i></a></td><td class="tdr">46</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#ENSHRINED"><i>Enshrined</i></a></td><td class="tdr">47</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#MACUSHLA"><i>Macushla</i></a></td><td class="tdr">48</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THREE_LOVELY_THINGS"><i>Three Lovely Things</i></a></td><td class="tdr">49</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#IMMOLATION"><i>Immolation</i></a></td><td class="tdr">50</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#DUSK_IN_A_GARDEN"><i>Dusk in a Garden</i></a></td><td class="tdr">51</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#REGRET"><i>Regret</i></a></td><td class="tdr">52</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_HOUSE_O_DREAMS"><i>The House O’ Dreams</i></a></td><td class="tdr">53</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#A_SONG_OF_YOUTH"><i>A Song of Youth</i></a></td><td class="tdr">54</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#IDYL_IN_A_GARDEN"><i>Idyl in a Garden</i></a></td><td class="tdr">55</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#NOSTALGIA"><i>Nostalgia</i></a></td><td class="tdr">56</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_VAMPIRE"><i>The Vampire</i></a></td><td class="tdr">57</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_ENCHANTED_LAND"><i>The Enchanted Land</i></a></td><td class="tdr">58</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#PARADOX"><i>Paradox</i></a></td><td class="tdr">59</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#AT_NIGHT"><i>At Night</i></a></td><td class="tdr">60</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#HAVEN"><i>Haven</i></a></td><td class="tdr">61</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#BY_AN_OPEN_WINDOW_IN_JUNE"><i>By an Open Window in June</i></a></td><td class="tdr">62</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#MAID_O_MINE"><i>Maid O’ Mine</i></a></td><td class="tdr">63</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#MY_SONGS"><i>My Songs</i></a></td><td class="tdr">64</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#LIFES_GARDEN"><i>Life’s Garden</i></a></td><td class="tdr">65</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_VENDOR_OF_DREAMS"><i>The Vendor of Dreams</i></a></td><td class="tdr">66</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#THE_PIPER"><i>The Piper</i></a></td><td class="tdr">67</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a href="#FULFILLMENT"><i>Fulfillment</i></a></td><td class="tdr">68</td></tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a><a id="Page_14"></a><a id="Page_15"></a>[Pg 15]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="WINGS">
+ <i>WINGS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Love has wings that folded lie</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Upon my heart with soft caress,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And nevermore they care to fly</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">From my heart’s tenderness.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Love has wings, they’ve flown away</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With never a tear-drop nor a sigh;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">How could I hope for them to stay,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When they so missed the sky?</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_SINGERS">
+ <i>THE SINGER</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I am but a singer,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Yet I ever dare</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Songs to send like arrows</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Quivering through the air.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Straight and swift and certain</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Flies each little dart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Home and harbor finding</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Within your dear heart.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="DREAMERS">
+ <i>DREAMERS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Dreamers are poor as poor can be,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">Without a cent put by;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Theirs is the wealth of sun and sea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">And rich-robed earth and sky.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all their own the silvery moon,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">The rainbow’s treasure chest;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Red roses in the heart of June,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">And love and faith and rest.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LITTLE_GYPSY">
+ <i>THE LITTLE GYPSY</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! Nina can dance with a gay Spanish dash,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">In her bright scarlet dress with broad yellow sash,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And black curls a-flying and eyes dark as sloes,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And music’s soft rhythm in her little toes.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! Nina can sing as she strums her guitar,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And sweet songs of Seville float in from afar,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The melody falls from her soft southern tongue,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And birdlings are silent till her song is sung.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! Nina can play on her wee castanets,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The gay tarantella my heart ne’er forgets,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As forth on the highway I laughingly fare,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With sweet Nina and youth and love everywhere.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="TO_MY_FRIEND">
+ <i>TO MY FRIEND</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">You are my friend. Give me no more</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of costly gems and golden store,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For these are not the things I prize—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For me let lovelight fill your eyes,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And give to me your tenderness,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your little broken words that bless</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And bear away the bitter pain</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And make my heart look up again.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh, come into my little room</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Whene’er descends the hour of gloom,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And let your love a candle be</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To bring the light of hope to me!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_NET">
+ <i>THE NET</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’m weaving a silken net for you,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A silken net so fair;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Forever I’ll keep you all my own</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Safe in its lovely lair.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’ll snare your body so small and sweet</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">From all life’s pain and harm,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And o’er your golden head I’ll throw</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The magic of its charm.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And fast my net shall wrap you round,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’ve wrought it strong and well;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your little hands alone may break</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Its strong and shining spell.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="LOVES_WITCHERY">
+ <i>LOVE’S WITCHERY</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Each day’s a golden hour to me,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Since I can walk again with thee.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The sea sings sweetly as of old,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all the laughing days unfold</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Their loveliness. The little streams</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Go drifting by like fairy dreams;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And o’er the perfumed face of Night</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Fall misty veils of silver light.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Glad promise gleams in morning skies,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And dawns, for me, in your dear eyes;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Each day’s a golden hour to me</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Since I can walk again with thee.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="MY_LITTLE_WINDOW">
+ <i>MY LITTLE WINDOW</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">From out my little window near the sky,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I watch the clouds like doves go wandering by.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I hear the song the thrush so sweetly sings,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As golden arrows flash his shining wings.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I see the roses full in scarlet bloom,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Their scented incense fills my tiny room,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all the world is free from fretful care,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And love and joy and youth are everywhere!</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I feel the spell the twilight softly weaves,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And watch the moonlight silver all the leaves,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then tender dreams of life so sweet a part,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Pass through my little window to my heart.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="HOMESICK">
+ <i>HOMESICK</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">These city streets are cold and gray,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">And very dim and dark;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">You never hear throughout the day</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">The song of meadow lark.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And hyacinths you never find,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">Blossoming white and blue;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Not in the city streets unkind</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">Does Springtime come to you.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">These city streets are filled with strife,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">Of fight for wealth and fame.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Today I’d give just half my life</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">To hear you call my name.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="GIFTS">
+ <i>GIFTS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I fain would give you golden gifts,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But you have gold more rare,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Since your Good Fairy gave to you</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A crown of golden hair.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">A silver trinket then, perhaps,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Would make your heart rejoice,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But what is silver to a maid</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With such a silvery voice?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Or would a gem your fancy please?</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">You’ve plenty, I surmise,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your lips are rubies, rosy-hued,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And diamonds bright, your eyes.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Within this scented garden fair,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A precious gift I’ll seek,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To match the lily of your throat,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The roses in your cheek.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_INTERPRETER">
+ <i>THE INTERPRETER</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">For him Life lifts her veil and lets him see</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The beauty hid beneath the mystery</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of sunset glory flaming in the sky.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And every gentle breeze that passes by</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Leaves soft caress upon his dreaming face,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And violets from the depths of mossy place</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Raise trusting eyes. And in the nights of June</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Resplendent shines for him a friendly moon.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_EASTER_BELL">
+ <i>THE EASTER BELL</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Over the earth there gladly fell</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The song of many a golden bell;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Far and near came the joyous chime</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That heralded the Easter time.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">So loud, so clear, its music rang</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As sweet as if an Angel sang:</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">“Lo! Death and Darkness both have fled</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Since Christ is risen from the dead.”</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">O! little bell, tell wind and wave</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That Love has triumphed o’er the grave.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Fill all the earth with joyous strain;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Ring out, sweet bell, again—again!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LITTLE_OLD_HOUSE">
+ <i>THE LITTLE OLD HOUSE</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Around the door red roses grow,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And as the soft June breezes blow,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Shy little dreams from petals creep</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And mystic tryst with memory keep.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">They let their tiny fingers rest</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Upon the old wall’s broken crest,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">They lift their little faces high</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As if to touch the clear blue sky.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">They try to ease the bitter smart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That lives within the broken heart</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of the sad house, so brown and old,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That ’neath the flaming sun is cold.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Shy little dreams—your labor’s vain;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The little house won’t smile again.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="MY_SWEETEST_SONG">
+ <i>MY SWEETEST SONG</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">My sweetest song was stilled</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Alas! by your own hand,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The day you sailed away</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To a far distant land.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">My sweetest song was filled</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With notes of keenest pain;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My thoughts were of primroses</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Along an Irish lane.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">My sweetest song is filled</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With joy-notes strong and clear;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My thoughts are all of roses,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For you at last are here!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="HEART_O_MINE">
+ <i>HEART O’ MINE</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Why are you sad, oh! heart o’ mine?</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Is the load heavy, or day too long?</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Now that the sun has ceased to shine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Have you forgot your song?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">You must be glad, oh! heart o’ mine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And bright and gay through pain and wrong,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And when your spirits begin to pine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Must sing your sweetest song.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="SILVER_SHIPS">
+ <i>SILVER SHIPS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I sit beside a sapphire sea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And watch my ships come home to me,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all the world is bright with flame,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Answering my joyous heart’s acclaim.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Their sails are made of pale white mist,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">By beams of morning softly kissed;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Their freight is dreams, a precious store,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Gathered upon some shining shore.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Come, little ships of silver hue,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Bring me fond hopes and visions new,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Bring me the dreams I lost one day,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When my Beloved went far away.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="A_GYPSYS_LONGING">
+ <i>A GYPSY’S LONGING</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’m hearing the words that you whisper so slow,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The soft words of love that are tender and low,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But oh! my wild heart is a-roaming the dale—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My wild gypsy heart, that cares not for love’s tale.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’m seeing your eyes and the promise they hold</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of the wealth of the world and the glitter of gold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But oh! my wet eyes that are straining to see</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The hills of the gypsies, the hills of the free!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’m touching your lips all aflame with desire,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And my heart is a-pulsing so close to the fire—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But oh! ’tis the hills that I’m wanting, my dear,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The hills where I wandered that spring of the year.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="CANDLES">
+ <i>CANDLES</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">There is a shrine within my heart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">Where two small candles burn,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And when the day’s last beams depart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">To their bright light I turn.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">One candle is your love for me,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">And one my love for you;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your love is strong as the mighty sea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">And mine is deep and true.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The little candles ever glow,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">At dusk or morn the same,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And up their bright flames quickly go,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">When each speaks the other’s name.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="A_SONG_WITHOUT_WORDS">
+ <i>A SONG WITHOUT WORDS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">There is a song within my heart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A song I long to sing,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But all the labor on my part</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">No fitting words can bring.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Yet all the calm and quiet trees,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Sing it throughout the day,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all its tender harmonies</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">On breezes float away.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And from the throat of every bird,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Asway above his nest,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The music of my song is heard,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The song within my breast.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="RENDEZVOUS">
+ <i>RENDEZVOUS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’ll surely come some happy day</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To our loved rendezvous,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Nor time nor space can keep away</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My longing heart from you.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">It may be in the crowded street,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Where Life goes on apace,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But I shall know you when we meet</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And smile into your face.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">It may be in the hush of night,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’ll see your loveliness;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My heart will run like wingèd light,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To meet your sweet caress.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Nor life nor death can keep away</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My longing heart from you;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Sometime—I’ll come—perhaps today</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To our loved rendezvous.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="FOR_MARY_ELIZABETHS_BIRTHDAY">
+ <i>FOR MARY ELIZABETH’S BIRTHDAY</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">If I but knew just how to say</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The thoughts that fill my heart today,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’d write a sonnet fine and grand,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And put it in your little hand.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">If I but knew just how to sing</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of Youth on happy shining wing,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’d sing a song for you to hear</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And trill it to your little ear.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">If I but knew just how to show</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My love for you through weal and woe,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’d take my soul—the better part,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And place it in your little heart.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="OUR_LADY_OF_THE_FLOWERS">
+ <i>OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The glory of the Spring is falling o’er</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The year. The silver-throated songsters pour</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Their bursting hearts in sweetest melody</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That thrills the raptured air to ecstacy.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And at our Lady’s shrine, the lily fair</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Lifts her pure face, a gentle nun at prayer;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And near her is the rose in glad array</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of splendid scarlet satin, bright and gay.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Wee violets, the blue of summer skies,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Their loving hearts a-tremble in their eyes,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Look up at Mary and with smiles so sweet,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">They lay their lives as offerings at her feet.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_BEST_KIND_OF_A_GAME">
+ <i>THE BEST KIND OF A GAME</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Let’s play that the whole world is shining,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And filled with gay laughter so bright;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With never a word of repining</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">From morning to star-covered night.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Let’s play that the rose’s red beauty,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Is filling the land with perfume,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Let’s find that there’s pleasure in duty,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And nothing but heartache in gloom.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Let’s play that the blithe birds are flinging</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Their happiness all through the air,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Let’s play that our life’s full of singing</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With hope and soft love everywhere.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="LIFES_SNARE">
+ <i>LIFE’S SNARE</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Life offered treasure rich to me,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Soft gleaming pearls from the Orient sea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And worldly fame—and beauty’s dower,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With golden wealth and place and power.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">With eager hands I took the store</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of Life’s fair gifts and begged for more;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then found too late with bitter dole</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">They forged gold fetters for my soul.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="LITTLE_ROADS">
+ <i>LITTLE ROADS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes I walk on a little white road</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That leads through the fair heart of June,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And Joy holds my hand as I saunter along,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And eventide comes all too soon.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes I walk on a little gray road,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That leads to a dull sullen sea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And my heart is a bitter and burdensome thing,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For Grief makes the journey with me.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_SECRET_ROOM">
+ <i>THE SECRET ROOM</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I have a room within my heart</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Where all my memories are,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Small honored guests, these little dreams</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That come from near and far.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">When I am sad I enter in</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And meet your loving smile</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That made my joy and happiness,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For such a little while.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And in the little room I light</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The lamp of deathless love,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all my sorrow quickly goes,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Like flight of swiftest dove.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="CYNTHIA_IN_HER_GARDEN">
+ <i>CYNTHIA IN HER GARDEN</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">She touches with white hands the flowers fair,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And they look up and smile to see her there,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And softly breathe a shy yet warm caress,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Upon the airy brightness of her dress.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then tender dreams that in old gardens bide</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Come eagerly swift-thronging to her side,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">She mothers them—her precious treasure-trove,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Till, creeping in her heart, they kindle love.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="GRAY_EYES">
+ <i>GRAY EYES</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I do not care for eyes of blue,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Though warm they are, and pure, and true;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Nor eyes of brown, so soft and deep,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Where tender dreams and fancies sleep.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I care not for black eyes that flash,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all one’s dear hopes rudely dash;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That laugh and dance and mock and tease,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Invoking mischief as they please.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">But, oh, I yearn for eyes of gray!</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">So calm and sweet and softly gay,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Such dear gray eyes as, long ago,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For me made heaven here below.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="A_LITTLE_GIRLS_GARDEN">
+ <i>A LITTLE GIRL’S GARDEN</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I have a little garden fair,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With soft dreams floating everywhere,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Filled with tall lilies, gold and white,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Shy violets and roses bright.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I listen to the drowsy rhyme</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The river makes in summer-time;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I lie upon the grass so cool</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Beside a quiet little pool.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I dream I am a princess grand,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The greatest lady in the land,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Bright jewels on my fingers shine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And golden wealth untold is mine.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I dream I am a fairy small,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Who never wants to grow at all,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Who plays all through the happy hours</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With dancing leaves and laughing flowers.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_MARTYR">
+ <i>THE MARTYR</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The sun hangs high in Heaven, darting down</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The glory of a springtime on the town,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The splendid beauty of the opening rose,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The promised wealth of music in some close</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Full throated warblers pour unto the sky</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A very incense-cloud of harmony.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The games will be anon and eager feet</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Hasten from every way and every street</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Pours down its tide with never ceasing flow—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Where stands the Coliseum vast below.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Lo! Lo! today, even today, glad hands</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Will loose the fretful tiger from his bands,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And fling unto the lions with a cry,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The few who worship Christ, and hence must die.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A voice is heard: “To us Pancratius yield!”</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then the gates fall, and on the sandy field</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Stands forth the very flower of Youth, as fair</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As when at night unto the raptured air</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Some lily breathes its ardent soul and dies,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">At joy of death wrapt in high ecstacies.</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span> <div class="verse indent0">“Ah! Emperor, master, Christ is mine and I</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Am Christ’s. Your sovereign mandate bids me die</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your gods are Rome’s, Christ mine, and therefor falls</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Thy wrath upon me. Lo! ’tis joy. All palls</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When matched with it, and seems but tears,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But tears and a legion of broad, phantom fears.”</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">“The panther”—wakes a voice—“he comes, he springs!”</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then with the mounting shriek that fiercely rings</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">They watch the panther move across the space,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">They watch the smile upon the boyish face—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then in a brilliant glare of light they see</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Him, and his Christ triumph eternally.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="TRYST">
+ <i>TRYST</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">When evening fires are burning low,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Into my room I softly go;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">In this sweet hour I love the most,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To tender dreams I am the host.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Close to my chair each loved one stands;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I feel the clasp of friendly hands;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I hear the breathing of their sighs,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And see the smile within their eyes.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The night without is gray and old,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And all my heart is bitter cold;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">’Tis then, fair dreams, I miss you so,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">You and the hour when fires are low.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The world is full of foolish things;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Its siren voice forever sings.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Dear dreams of love, be with me yet,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Lest I your sweetness all forget.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="ENSHRINED">
+ <i>ENSHRINED</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Just now the firelight painted</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A picture on my wall;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A picture of my sweetheart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">So dazzling fair, and tall.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And then the shadows entered,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And bade my dream depart;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I straightway put the picture</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Within my eager heart.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="MACUSHLA">
+ <i>MACUSHLA</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your lips are fair beguilin’</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As they sing a happy tune,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your eyes are always smilin’</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Like the sunny skies in June.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your hair all bright and shinin’</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Is made of fairy gold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">It sets my heart a-pinin’</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To own its wealth untold.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">But oh! your love, Macushla,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your love so fond and true,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">’Twas God above, Macushla,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Made the Irish heart of you!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THREE_LOVELY_THINGS">
+ <i>THREE LOVELY THINGS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I saw three lovely things today,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">At morn, a little child at play,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Her hair a net that caught the sun</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And held its gold till day was done.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">At noon, I saw a boy aflame</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With glowing dreams of love and fame;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">His eager heart bridged o’er the years,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And felt their joy—but not their tears.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I saw a toil-worn man at night,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Come to a little home, alight</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With sweet content; upon the stair</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Wife and child were waiting there.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">There came three lovely things my way,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">At morn, at noon, at close of day,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And each one brought a gift to me</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To store within my memory.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="IMMOLATION">
+ <i>IMMOLATION</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Not for the martyr’s crown</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I pray, dear Lord,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Not for the quick fierce death</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">By heathen sword.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Not for the battle’s cease,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The victory won,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Not for the long cool rest</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">At set of sun.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But still the lonely life</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">From all apart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But still the gnawing pain</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of bruiséd heart.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But still upon the cross</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For love of Thee,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Until at last, at last,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Thy Face I see.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="DUSK_IN_A_GARDEN">
+ <i>DUSK IN A GARDEN</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I feel the breath of summer air,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I hear a whispered message there</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And raise my eyes, in awe, to see</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The soul of Night unveiled for me.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="REGRET">
+ <i>REGRET</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I banished you with jesting</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That heeded not your fears,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I turned to love and laughter</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And found no place for tears.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Now that you’re gone, I’m wiser,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I seek you everywhere,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My eyes are wet with weeping</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And life’s no longer fair.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_HOUSE_O_DREAMS">
+ <i>THE HOUSE O’ DREAMS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Over the river upon the hill</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Is a little brown house, fast-shut and still;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Around it circle sighing trees</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That whisper a plaint to the passing breeze,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And over it trailing shadows go</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">In endless search for flowers a-blow.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Over the river upon the hill,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When starry night is cool and still,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then comes a dream of days of old—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A dream of love too long untold.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My heart runs vainly to the door</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of the little house on the misty shore.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="A_SONG_OF_YOUTH">
+ <i>A SONG OF YOUTH</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Life calls me out on the sunlit road,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Out where the winds blow free,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">There’s never a sorrow in my light load</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Nor a care in the heart of me.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And I’ll drink my fill of red romance—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of love and laughter gay—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And along with me will the lassies dance</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To the lilt of a rondelay.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And when the moon o’er the shining trail</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Casts a veil of silver light,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">We’ll charter a ship of dreams and sail</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Away on the sea of night.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="IDYL_IN_A_GARDEN">
+ <i>IDYL IN A GARDEN</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">We walked in a little garden</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">All drenched with silver dew,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I said: “How blue those violets!”</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">“Your eyes are yet more blue.”</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I touched a slender lily,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">So tall and gold and fair;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">“A priceless thing,” I whispered,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">“More priceless gold, your hair.”</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I plucked a rose so lovely,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">“The sweetest flower,” I said,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">“But oh, your lips are sweeter!”</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Said he, as he bent his head.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="NOSTALGIA">
+ <i>NOSTALGIA</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">A silver mist above a summer sea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The daffodils a-blow upon the lea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The march of stars across the moonlit dome</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Bring poignant longing for the hills of home!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_VAMPIRE">
+ <i>THE VAMPIRE</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Her hair that gleams as morning light,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Filled with the sunbeams hidden gold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Her slender arms that warm and white</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Can happiness and bliss enfold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Her eyes, that like dark fires shine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And like dark fires soon destroy,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Her lips that glow like scarlet wine</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And bid men drink of their sweet joy,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">All, all, her body’s beauty rare,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Long slipped the leash of firm control—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Is used as bait to catch and snare</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And kill a man’s immortal soul.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_ENCHANTED_LAND">
+ <i>THE ENCHANTED LAND</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Can’t you hear the fairies? Their singing fills the glen;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Can’t you see them dancing? The gayest little men,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Dressed in green and yellow, with tiny silver shoon</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That catch their glint and sparkle from June-time’s golden moon.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Can’t you hear them whispering, whispering soft and low,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">All the wondrous secrets that you so long to know?</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But you must ne’er be telling a thing you chance to hear;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The fairies would be sorry they let you come so near.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Don’t you want to travel, these many leagues away,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To where the fairies revel through the night and day?</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The train will soon be leaving, on a track of golden dust,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">’Tis this you’ll need for luggage: a heart of simple trust.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="PARADOX">
+ <i>PARADOX</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes I laugh and sing</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To hide my fears—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My heart a haunted thing</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Abrim with tears.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes I softly weep,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For joy is mine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And Love keeps vigil sweet—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My heart his shrine.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="AT_NIGHT">
+ <i>AT NIGHT</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Sleep’s gentle fingers draw me to her feet</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And soon she gives me dreams so bright and sweet,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To hold within my hands and taste their joy,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And find their gold is all without alloy.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And then she hides me ’neath her purple dress,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Then come her lips, my own to gently bless,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And in my ears soft rings the elfin call</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That bids the heavy wings of rest to fall.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="HAVEN">
+ <i>HAVEN</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! for the peace of a tiny farm,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And a path that climbs a hill;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And your dear voice, potent charm,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Singing the love songs still.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! for a home, sweetheart o’mine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">By meadow and winding lane,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And sweet wet violets that shine</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">With glint of April rain.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Today I glimpse through door of dreams,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">This haven of the heart;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">E’en fancied joy has power, it seems,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">To heal the bitter smart.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak x-ebookmaker-important" id="BY_AN_OPEN_WINDOW_IN_JUNE">
+ <i>BY AN OPEN WINDOW IN JUNE</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">How sweet is the fragrance that perfumes the air,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The wealth of red roses abloom everywhere;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The skies of bright sapphire are all bending low</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Above the sweet earth where the soft breezes blow.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And there, past the hills, is the smile of the sea,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And the little worn path that led you to me.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The heart in my breast is calling your name</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As it called it so softly the first day you came.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The roses are lonely—they’re drooping today—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For June isn’t June, because you’re away;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Come back! Ah, Macushla, you answer no word,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Out there in the din my heart isn’t heard!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="MAID_O_MINE">
+ <i>MAID O’ MINE</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Dear little maid with eyes of blue,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">You bring such lovely gifts with you:</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your golden dreams undimmed by care—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Your love—your faith so sweet and rare.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Dancing along through merry hours,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Heeding not the passing showers,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">You sing in voice of gentle tone</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The softest winds have made their own.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">You bring me dreams of tender things,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of butterflies and flashing wings,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of days that hold the kiss of June,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of nights lit by a baby moon</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of little saints with folded hands,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of gardens where the lily stands,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of meadows silvered o’er with dew—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">These are the dreams you bring with you.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="MY_SONGS">
+ <i>MY SONGS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I spin my songs from sun to sun,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And fleetly weave my dreams</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And yet my work is never done,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But just begun, it seems.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">For every morn, the golden rays</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Of sun come through the trees,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And evernew the moonlight strays</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Upon the sapphire seas.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">All through the day I see your eyes,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">So sweet and soft and clear,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And in the night, in swift surprise,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I hear your voice so dear.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">So ever I spin my little song,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And weave my dream so true,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For every hour that speeds along</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Brings new sweet thoughts of you.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="LIFES_GARDEN">
+ <i>LIFE’S GARDEN</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I walked in a lovely garden,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">All filled with flowers rare,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And I wanted just one blossom,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A red rose growing there.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">But so tall it grew and stately,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">So high above my head</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">That I could never reach it,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My rose so sweet and red.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Ah! what is a lovely garden</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">If my heart has no repose?</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And what are all splendid flowers,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">If I cannot reach my rose?</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_VENDOR_OF_DREAMS">
+ <i>THE VENDOR OF DREAMS</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’ve dreams to sell—fair dreams and bright—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Wrapped up in silver lace,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And they will fill your heart with light</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And smile into your face.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’ve dreams of Spring—of happy Spring—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When hearts beat brave and high,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I’ve dreams all caught in a golden ring</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And hid in a roguish eye.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Would you like a dream of wee sweet lips,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Or a dream of a night in June?</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Perchance a dream of treasure ships</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">A-sail ’neath a silver moon?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Come buy, come buy.... I’m on my way,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I care not for your gold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I sell my dreams for a smile so gay,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Or a heart that ne’er grows old.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PIPER">
+ <i>THE PIPER</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! Life was piping on flute of gold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And I followed him fast along,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And my heart was pulsing brave and bold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As it sang a gay gypsy song.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! Love was calling, for it was Spring,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And I heard his eager cry,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And forth I fared me, adventuring</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Under the tender blue sky.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Oh! we three went dancing along the way,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As Life piped his maddest tune,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And then, at the close of the golden day,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">We dreamt ’neath the smiling moon.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="FULFILLMENT">
+ <i>FULFILLMENT</i>
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+ <div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The ardent sun with laughter gay</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Kissed the modest dawn.</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And ere had come the blush of day</div>
+ <div class="verse indent4">A rose was born!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Joy dwelt within the poet’s heart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Like a captive bird,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When Sorrow tore the bars apart,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent4">A song was heard!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Youth gave the cup of Life to me,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I saw its jewels shine,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">I drained it, oh, so eagerly,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent4">And Love was mine!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+<div class="transnote chapter">
+<p class="center"><b>Transcriber’s Notes</b></p>
+
+<p>Perceived typographical errors have been silently corrected.</p>
+</div>
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 79045 ***</div>
+</body>
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