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Synopsis
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. 1869. Excerpt: ... BERNARD BARTON. TO THE EVENING PRIMROSE. Fair flower, that shunn'st the glare of day, Yet lov'st to open, meekly bold, To evening's hues of silver grey Thy cup of paly gold;--Be thine the offering, owing long To thee, and to this pensive hour, Of one brief tributary song, Though transient as thy flower, i I love to watch at silent eve Thy scatter'd blossoms' lonely light, And have my inmost heart receive The influence of that sight. I love at such an hour to mark Their beauty greet the night-breeze chill, And shine, 'mid shadows gathering dark, The garden's glory still. For such 'tis sweet to think the while, When cares and griefs the breast invade, Is friendship's animating smile In sorrow's dark'ning shade. Thus it bursts forth, like thy pale cup--Glist'ning amid its dewy tears, And bears the sinking spirit up Amid its chilling fears--But still more animating far, If meek Religion's eye may trace Even in thy glimm'ring, earth-born star, The holier hope of Grace. The hope, that as thy beauteous bloom Expands to glad the close of day, So through the shadows of the tomb May break forth Mercy's ray. SOTHEBY. SKIRID. A HILL NEAR ABERGAVENNY. Skirid! remembrance thy loved scene renews; Fancy, yet lingering on thy shaggy brow, Beholds around the lengthened landscape glow, Which charmed, when late the day-beam's parting hues Purpled the distant cliff. The crystal stream Of Usk bright winds the verdant meads among; The dark heights lower with wild woods o'erhung; Pale on the grey tower falls the twilight gleam. And frequent I recall the sudden breeze, Which, as the sun shot up his last pale flame, Shook every light leaf shivering on the trees: Then, bathed in dew, meek evening silent came, While the low wind, that faint and fainter fell, Soft murmured to the dyi...
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