This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...from winter sleep to fair day dreams.Of summer happiness and early love, Such as were hers in Eden when a bride. With cuckoo-call and tender crooning dove She murmurs joy; until in her soft side The wound where man a keen, cold anguish drove Reopens--man her offspring and her pride! Ah! for that morning when the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...from winter sleep to fair day dreams.Of summer happiness and early love, Such as were hers in Eden when a bride. With cuckoo-call and tender crooning dove She murmurs joy; until in her soft side The wound where man a keen, cold anguish drove Reopens--man her offspring and her pride! Ah! for that morning when the youthful Sun First saw the face of his beloved one, Arose from sleep to find her by his side, To woo her and to win her for a bride! For, lo! a knell all unexpectedly Breaks from the leafy lowland slow and deep, Wailing to heaven a long heart-broken sigh. One moment Earth forgot that she must weep, And gazed abroad with visionary eye, Was young once more--yet pitilessly creep Into their wonted lair within her heart The loathsome, venomous old memories: Now unavailing long-drawn wails impart Her grief to careless unresponding skies: They knell like drops of blood from forth the heart, Slow falling to suffuse with taint of blood All opening summer's fair felicities Of sunny air, of song-resounding wood. It fills and loads with umbrage of fell blight All burdened space; a cancer merciless, It heaves and throbs through all the summer light; And on my soul the heavy tollings press. I may not see the mournful human sight Beneath the hill, concealed among the trees, Where rests a homely village in the plain; But the knell says a balmy summer breeze Blows idly there upon a human pain! One leaves there some loved life beneath the sod, Half longing with the lifeless to remain, And meekly bleeds, or idly curses God! O Earth, our mother! was it well or ill, To chafe so restless in thy natal home Of sweet unconscious innocence, until There dawned in thee the glory and the gloom Of human vision and of human will? Then was revealed to thee that thou art fair; Aflo...
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