If Tam O'Shanter'd had a wheel, and other poems and sketches . WtW Yi I&. ffurve ofkouhtry roadAhat slipsw/To thread! the fragrant/mazes of tne^J/rj[ Where daffodils are peeping from their .{wu*, (And jgentfans turn shy glances toward the Hg&V^A^fretch of field to pass, -a hills Incline*^ V^sudden turning in the willow lanefaint tap tap -against the/windowAnd all I hold against my ifeart Is 5C*WfEp7«/V. 35 CONSIDER THE LILIES. The flower-burdened wagon drew up in front of theflorists door, and the hurrying crowd turned interestedand admiring glances upon the profusion of clusteringroses and fe
If Tam O'Shanter'd had a wheel, and other poems and sketches . WtW Yi I&. ffurve ofkouhtry roadAhat slipsw/To thread! the fragrant/mazes of tne^J/rj[ Where daffodils are peeping from their .{wu*, (And jgentfans turn shy glances toward the Hg&V^A^fretch of field to pass, -a hills Incline*^ V^sudden turning in the willow lanefaint tap tap -against the/windowAnd all I hold against my ifeart Is 5C*WfEp7«/V. 35 CONSIDER THE LILIES. The flower-burdened wagon drew up in front of theflorists door, and the hurrying crowd turned interestedand admiring glances upon the profusion of clusteringroses and feathery ferns and the waxen beauty ofcamelias and hyacinths. Potted plants nodding in fra-grance and bloom; baskets, smilax-twined, heaped intocensers of incense for the shrine of love ; and the lilies —tall, beautiful, and pure — Consider the lilies. The words fell half mechanically, from lips unusedto gentle sounds. The woman, walking with unsteady steps along the way, muttered them beneath her had she heard them before! Not at the prisonwhose doors had opened for her but that day — notthere! but somewhere — She pushed the matted hair from her forehead, andturned her bleared and sunken eyes back toward thestately chalices that filled the wide arch at the wagonsend. Suddenly a flush crept over her wrinkled cheeks,a crafty look shot through the hopeless misery of her 36 CONSI
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