. Twilight dreams: being poems and pictures of life and nature . JVIy ^Maf{qaf(et! ^Y Margaret, uoukl lliat I could beThe breeze which softly kisses thee;Or else those sunlieaiiis, warm and bright,Which crown thy head with golden light. The breeze, she answered, dies sunbeams fade with close of day. Then if I were those flouers fairWhich thou, dear girl, art carrying there,To wear perchance upon thy breast—Oh. happy flowers, so loved, so blest ! The flowers fair must fade, said she ; Then I shall cast them off froin me ! Well, let me then thy true love be,Winning thine every thought f
. Twilight dreams: being poems and pictures of life and nature . JVIy ^Maf{qaf(et! ^Y Margaret, uoukl lliat I could beThe breeze which softly kisses thee;Or else those sunlieaiiis, warm and bright,Which crown thy head with golden light. The breeze, she answered, dies sunbeams fade with close of day. Then if I were those flouers fairWhich thou, dear girl, art carrying there,To wear perchance upon thy breast—Oh. happy flowers, so loved, so blest ! The flowers fair must fade, said she ; Then I shall cast them off froin me ! Well, let me then thy true love be,Winning thine every thought for me ;111 envy not the breeze or flower,Nor een the sunshines golden dower. Ah, love I cannot cast away,But hold for ever, night and day! 7 Mary D. Brine. )^iy ^Z^ ^ OOD news or evil, sunshine or shadow—-^ What is the message the postman bor?,]\Ieating a lassie midway in the meadow,Bringing a letter from distant shore? Wounded to death ! —so ran the letter— Wounded to death in the front of the fray !Dying right nobly surely is betterThan living to bask in lifes sunniest ray ! Wounded to death ! —Ay. almost to dymg, But the great God gave back the life that seemed even now while the maiden was sighing, The far-stretching lea;gues of the ocean were just when the sky seemed most cloudy and dreary, And all was as dark as a dull autumn soldier was back, with his own little dearie, And the sunshine burst forth with a glad summer ray.
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