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A Little Tress

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
February
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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[The followlng vers-s. wrltten forthePhiladelpbia Puhlif Ledger by the venerable ArchDeacon Farrar, who is as widely known here as In Englanrt for his learning and plety, desoribes au incident that ooourred at the bust of Longfellow in Westmiuster abbey.] Where sunbeams frota each p;iinted pane Poured türough the aisles their glorious fiood, Within theroyal Minister fime The ïtranger gR.ing stood : From thut fair región ol the West, Of England's kin beyond the sea- At home where onr great fathers rest; At home among the lïee. But lrngering near eaeh carven tomb Of Kin and Queen and wurrior brave, Amld the glory and the gloom, Wlth memories glad and grave. They fondliest turn thelr earnest gaze On statued form and laurelled urn Of those who sang their aeathless lays In words that brealhe and burn. And 'mid those places ot'the dead, Where He the noblest sous of tame, They saw a well-loved face, they read A dear familiar name- The name of him, the bard beloved Of life and home, of hopes and fears, Whose sweet pathetic songs have moved A thousand hearts to tears. Hls bust, young Ellen cried, Is white; White was hl life as Alpine snows; And here 1 lay with, flnger light, My gift - this crimson rose. They turned but where is Mabel ? See, On toe by the bust she stands, And there she places lovingly, Her gift, with trembling hands. And what was Mabel's gift? A tress, A ttny tress of golden nair Shorn from the sunuy loveliuess Whicli wreathed her forehead fair! She blushed this liltle Western gul. Herchildish eyes with tears were dim; 'I had," ehe cried, "but one poor curl, And not a rose for him." Yes! there, 'mid banner, urn. and tomb, Ou that white marble's glitteriug fold They lie- that rose of summer bloom, That tress of childhood's gold! Dear Poet, teil us- gazing down, Lov'8t thou not more in realms above, Than icicles of cold renown, Those glftsof chiidhood's love.

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Ann Arbor Courier