LAZY LILIES.

Daily doing deeds of love,

Blessings reach you from above;
Quiet tasks, and simple ways,

These your bounden meed of praise.

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THOSE MERRY WALKS TOGETHER.

H, those merry walks together,
In the long-pass'd days of yore,

O'er the swathes of purple heather,

And along the winding shore.

Young we were and merry-hearted,
Life ran like a tuneful rhyme;
Little dream'd we we'd be parted,
In that golden summer-time.

Oh, those happy walks together,
Heart in heart and hand in hand,
In the blithesome summer weather,
O'er the sun-lit, wave-kiss'd strand!

Oh, how fair the face of nature
Seem'd around, beneath, above,
To our glad ears every creature
Sang of joy, and peace, and love.

THOSE MERRY WALKS TOGETHER.

Faded now the sun-tints golden,

Faded now the summer glow,

And the fields are all enfolden
In a winding-sheet of snow.

Lone, and left, and lorn I wander
O'er wild moor and wintry fell,
Waiting for the end I ponder

On the days when all was well.

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GERALDINE.

AZEL-EYED she was, and golden
Hair fell round her oval face,

Such you see in pictures olden
In Venetian palaces.

When we met, a cross so holy

Press'd her breast of virgin snow;

Joy was mix'd with melancholy,
For she knew that she must go.

Grieved was she at thought of leaving
Me, who was her life and love,

Full of joy she was, believing

We should meet in Heaven above.

Through the spring-tide hours she wasted,
Till she died in early June,
Lovelier growing as she hasted

On to her untimely tomb.

GERALDINE.

Now she lies where violets blowing
Scent the air in earliest spring,
And, a rill beside her flowing,

Stays the mavish on his wing.

And the sea's resounding waters,
With their changeless, changing roll,
Of the loveliest of earth's daughters

Sound a requiem for the soul.

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