. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . lt;l it from that giunmcr ilay But in it« wontid place There was anotlior face—A little girls, with yellow curly hair About her shoulders tossed ; And tlu! sweet balx we lostSeemed sometimes looking from her eyes sifair. AIRY NOTHINGS. 325 She dances, romps, and does a hundred things Which my lost baby never tried to do;She longs to read in books,And with bright eager looks Is always asking questions strange and new. And I can scarcely tell, I love the rogue so well,Whether
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . lt;l it from that giunmcr ilay But in it« wontid place There was anotlior face—A little girls, with yellow curly hair About her shoulders tossed ; And tlu! sweet balx we lostSeemed sometimes looking from her eyes sifair. AIRY NOTHINGS. 325 She dances, romps, and does a hundred things Which my lost baby never tried to do;She longs to read in books,And with bright eager looks Is always asking questions strange and new. And I can scarcely tell, I love the rogue so well,Whether I would retrace the four yearstrack, And lose the merry sprite Who makes my home so brightTo have again my little baby back. Ah, Blue-eyes, do you seeWho stole my babe from me, And brought the little girl from fairy dims?A gray old man with wings,Who steals all precious things; He lives forever, and his name is Time. He rules the world they say; He took my babe away—My precious babe—and left me in its jdaoe This little maiden fair, With yellow curly lives on stories, and whose name kGrace!. ^^.:-% AIRY NOTHINGS.
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