... Oil heart of my heart, art thou beating In unison sweetly with mine? I waft from my lips this fond greeting, And hope it will cross one from thine. Oh thought of my thoughts, while my glan ...

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... Comic J&ougs of Cigljtn gears Hp THE comic songs of one generation are usually rather painful reading for the next. What will our children say when they re member that we were entertained for a whole ...

... Ending in 3Etrm (How the Fall might have been Prevented.) When Adam in Eden grew tired o' his life, Digging and delving, they gied him a wife Had they gien him a gawd wi' a line and a flee Commonsense ...

... iBastet 20 a This is a very miracle That out of Darkness light should come, And song be born of things long dumb The Touch invisible, The brushing of the Seamless dress, The Voice that rent thro' deat ...

... 5Ti)r (5 rear (Cmurast This is the day of France, The land of high romance, With Freedom's flag unfurled Once more she leads the world. She never hymned The Day,' Our gallant Gaul, And yet her Day ha ...

... 2Ti)c Krronipenac Antonius the prize of battle yielded, A nd followed Cleopatra's fickle bark But he, from life's grim concourse deathward turning, Espied her wistful lantern through the dark. E. H. V ...

... £1 0 n o of 02J a 1 1 n 3 Dawn streams across the East a faint flush lingers, Deepens, and spreads, and glows As, from Night's urgent clasp, Day draws white fingers, Kissed to a tender rose A day to l ...

... Utaiing jtoltners j Only yesterday were they Chaffing at unwelcome rule, Measuring study by their play In the little world of school. Only yesterday intent On the limits of their sphere, j Every wakin ...

... When the children are abed, And the house is lone and still, And their little sprites are fled To the Valley o'er the Hill Then across the glistening snow Comes the happy elfin train From the land of ...

... TWO SONGS FOR' CHRISTMAS EVE I Sing a song of berried holly, Fun and folly, Mistletoe, and mummers dancing And romancing I Drown the Past, that fearsome dragon, In a flagon Set the mellow bells a-swin ...

... I WAS only her playmate, her cousin, She an heiress of Castle and Grange, She had lovers,-- I daresay a dozen, And nobody thought it was strange; On all sides she was worshipped and fêted, L ...