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Fancies Of The Poets

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Day
18
Month
February
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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As one who, wandeling tn a weary land Alone, wbere tliorns and brlars beset the way, And ciouds and darkness have o'erconic the day, Suddenly feols from out the dark a hand In his, and hears a voice of mild command At ïvhich the clouds disperse, the sunshine fray Returns, and all withiu hls beart Is May As fortli he poes unto soiue happy strand. - So I, in darkness groping, hear yoor volee Aeaii), and feel your naud in mine, (For what is distance to true uearts that love) And all my darkness ends, for at the siga 01 jour forj;iveness I once more rejoice And fee! sweet Peace desceuding like a dove. TO MO.IE8KA AS ROSALIN'D. When from the poets braiu fair Arden's glades Were peopled wlth the llghtsome folk we know, A shade of discontent was seen to grow Upon his brow, as he through long decades In visión satr this lovellest of his malds By beardless boys euacteii, and her show Of malden grace obscured and hldden so In guise ofyouths won from boyish trades. Soon changed the visión and through centuries far A group of women fair he then dld see, Whose hearts, one after another were beguiled By some Orlando's youth and bravery, And in the throng, and radlant as a star, On thee, the mlghty master looking, miled 1 - Oscar Fay Adams. The marhle smith, at his morning task, Merrily glasses the blue-veined stone, Witb stout hands circling smooth. You ask, "What will it be, when it is donci" "A shaftforayoungglrl'sgrave." Both hands Go back with a will to their slncwy play; And he sings like a bird, as he swaying stand, A rolicking stave of Love and May. She came and went, as comes and goes The dewdrop on the morning rose, Or nfl fhp tjlnílpr liírht thnt. Hía At sbut of daj aloug the sky. lier coming made the dawu more bright, Her goiug brought the sombre night; Her comiug made the blossoms shlue, Her going made them droop and plne. Where'er her twinkliug f eet did pass, Beneath them greener grew the grass; The eong-birds ruffled thelr small throats To swell for her thelr blithest notes. But when she went, the blushlng dy Sank uto silence chili and grar, The dark its sable vans unfurled, And sudden nigbt possessed the world. O fond dcslros that wake in rain 1 8be ne'er will come to us agaln; And now, like vanísbed perfume sweet, Her memory grows more vague and fleet, Tet we rejoice that morn by mom The sad old world seems less forloru, Since once so bright a visión carne To touch our ejes with heavenly lame. And show to our bewildered ejes Wbat beauty dwells in paradise.

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Ann Arbor Democrat