. A scholar's day-dream, sonnets, and other poems . LILY AND VIOLET. A NATURAL SUGGESTION. A S lily in the quiet eves, When woods are wet with dew;Ellen, thy holy beauty cleavesMe through and through. I wait and worship as I pass, I cannot help but stay:No saintly monk at early mass More prompt to pray. As violet in the heated noon When all the air is faint;Alice, thy beauty breathes in June, No thought of saint. Lily and Violet. i8i I watch and wonder as I go, Yet cannot help but fly;Some wicked spirit from below Lives in thine eye. 0 lily in thy virgin cell, 0 violet in the sun,—Why is it if
. A scholar's day-dream, sonnets, and other poems . LILY AND VIOLET. A NATURAL SUGGESTION. A S lily in the quiet eves, When woods are wet with dew;Ellen, thy holy beauty cleavesMe through and through. I wait and worship as I pass, I cannot help but stay:No saintly monk at early mass More prompt to pray. As violet in the heated noon When all the air is faint;Alice, thy beauty breathes in June, No thought of saint. Lily and Violet. i8i I watch and wonder as I go, Yet cannot help but fly;Some wicked spirit from below Lives in thine eye. 0 lily in thy virgin cell, 0 violet in the sun,—Why is it if I dream twere well Could both be one %. l82
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