Synopsis
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WAYFARERS. O COMRADE Sun, that day by day Dost weave a shadow on my way, Lest, in the luxury of light, My soul forget the neighboring night: ? Wilt thou whene'er, my journey done, Thou wanderest our path upon, Bear in thy beams a memory Of one who walked the world with thee, Or mourn, amid the lavishness Of Life, one hovering shade the less ? THE PEAK. AS on some solitary height Abides, in summer's fierce despite, Snow-blossom that no sun can blight, No frost can kill; Sok in my soul, ?all else below To change succumbing, ? stands aglow One wreath of immemorial snow, Unscattered still. THE CAPTIVES. APART forever dwelt the twain, Save for one oft-repeated strain Wherein what Love alone could say They learned and lavished day by day. Strangers in all but misery And music's hope-sustaining tie, They lived and loved and died apart, But soul to soul and heart to heart. chapter{Section 4MY PHOTOGRAPH. MY sister Sunshine smiled on me, And of my visage wrought a shade, 'Behold," she cried, "the mystery Of which thou art afraid " For Death is but a tenderness, A shadow, that unclouded Love Hath fashioned in its own excess Of radiance from above." BROTHERHOOD. KNEW not the Sun, sweet Violet, The while he gleaned the snow, That thou in darkness sepulchred, Wast slumbering below ? Or spun a splendor of surprise Around him to behold thee rise ? Saw not the Star, sweet Violet, What time a drop of dew Let fall his image from the sky Into thy deeper blue ? Nor waxed he tremulous and dim When rival Dawn supplanted him ? And dreamest thou, sweet Violet, That I, the vanished Star, The Dewdrop, and the morning Sun, Thy closest kinsmen are ? So near that, waking or asleep, We each and all thine image keep ?EVICTED. TIME shut ...
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