. Poems, lyrics, songs and sonnets. OW sweet the stillness of the autumnwood,How soft the cushion of the velvet which recline the vagrant brother-hootlOf wandering gipsies—knowing not tlie lossOf house or home, whilst curtained by the fern, Roofed by the spreading branches of the trees,Jhrough whose quaint interlacing they discernThe broken radiance of the sun—or leani The movements of the starry host by niorht,And slumber softly sheltered from the breeze,Hushed by the murmurs of the far off seas, But promptly waking with the dawning light,Eegin the aimless loiter of their lives,Untaxe

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. Poems, lyrics, songs and sonnets. OW sweet the stillness of the autumnwood,How soft the cushion of the velvet which recline the vagrant brother-hootlOf wandering gipsies—knowing not tlie lossOf house or home, whilst curtained by the fern, Roofed by the spreading branches of the trees,Jhrough whose quaint interlacing they discernThe broken radiance of the sun—or leani The movements of the starry host by niorht,And slumber softly sheltered from the breeze,Hushed by the murmurs of the far off seas, But promptly waking with the dawning light,Eegin the aimless loiter of their lives,Untaxed they pilfer, feed, and swarm as bees inhives. TO MRS. LOUGH. ON THE MARRIAflK OF HEE DALGIITKR * INA.

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