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Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908 [1854], This, that and the other. (Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf655T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
We wandered by the burnside, In the merry month of May, When the leaflets and the blossoms Were keeping holiday; When the cowslips starred the meadows, And the alders fringed the brook, And the early violets lifted To the skies a loving look; And the wild choke-cherry blossoms You braided in my hair, Till my cheek with blushes deepened, As you said that I was fair! And I thought that sweet spring sunshine Jacob's ladder might have been, On which angels clomb to heaven, And came down again to men; For the breezes breathed but incense, And the streamlet breathed but prayer, And a misty gold went floating On the fragrant spring-time air; And I surely thought your kisses Were like blessings from the skies, And a thousand visions slumbered In your blue and dreamy eyes!
But the day blew slowly over With a noise of wind and rain; To your eyes there came a shadow, To my heart there came a pain; And the streamlet 'gan to dimple; — Was it with some angel's tears, Who sat weeping, in the silence, O'er the changes of the years? There shall come another May-time; By the burnside I shall walk, Hearing no glad step beside me, And no sound of pleasant talk; Gone will be the breathing fragrance, And the music in the air, As the wild choke-cherry blossoms Will be withered from my hair. Never more, like Jacob's ladder, Will the sunshine seem to fall; 'T will be clomb by ghosts and spectres, Bearing up a funeral pall; But my life is blowing over, With a noise of wind and rain,— I shall sleep the death-sleep calmly, And my heart will cease from pain.
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908 [1854], This, that and the other. (Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf655T]. |