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TO A SLEEPING CHILD . ART thou a thing of mortal birth , Whose happy home is on our earth ? Does human blood with life embue Those wandering veins of heavenly blue , That stray along thy forehead fair , Lost ' mid a gleam of golden hair ...
TO A SLEEPING CHILD . ART thou a thing of mortal birth , Whose happy home is on our earth ? Does human blood with life embue Those wandering veins of heavenly blue , That stray along thy forehead fair , Lost ' mid a gleam of golden hair ...
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... things of earth ! Night is the time to watch ; Ön ocean's dark expanse , To hail the Pleiades , or catch The full moon's earliest glance , That brings unto the home - sick mind All we have loved and left behind . Night is the time for ...
... things of earth ! Night is the time to watch ; Ön ocean's dark expanse , To hail the Pleiades , or catch The full moon's earliest glance , That brings unto the home - sick mind All we have loved and left behind . Night is the time for ...
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... thing of hope and change ! MISS BAILLIE . POETRY THE world is full of Poetry - the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies , And sparkle in its brightness . Earth is veil'd And mantled with its ...
... thing of hope and change ! MISS BAILLIE . POETRY THE world is full of Poetry - the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies , And sparkle in its brightness . Earth is veil'd And mantled with its ...
Page 56
... thing , And blossom'd in the eyes of men , Like any flower of spring . Thy soul to heaven hath fled , From earthly thraldom free ; Yet , ' t is not as the dead That thou appear'st to me . In slumber I behold Thy form , as when on earth ...
... thing , And blossom'd in the eyes of men , Like any flower of spring . Thy soul to heaven hath fled , From earthly thraldom free ; Yet , ' t is not as the dead That thou appear'st to me . In slumber I behold Thy form , as when on earth ...
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... thing To watch it falling , falling Down upon earth with noiseless wing As at some spirit's calling ; Each flake is a fairy parachute , From teeming clouds let down , And earth is still , and air is mute , As frost's enchanted zone ...
... thing To watch it falling , falling Down upon earth with noiseless wing As at some spirit's calling ; Each flake is a fairy parachute , From teeming clouds let down , And earth is still , and air is mute , As frost's enchanted zone ...
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