Now ere I slept, my prayer had been that I might see my way
To do the will of Christ, our Lord and Master, day by day;
And with this prayer upon my lips, I knew not that I dreamed,
But suddenly the world of night a pandemonium seemed.
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I know two women, and one is chaste
And cold as the snows on a winters waste,
Stainless ever I act and thought
(As a man, born dumb, in speech errs not) .
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Before this scarf was faded,
What hours of mirth it knew;
How gayly it paraded
From smiling eyes to view.
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The God of the day has vanished,
The light from the hills has fled,
And the hand of an unseen artist
Is painting the west all red.
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HERE AND NOW.
Here, in the heart of the world,
Here, in the noise and the din,
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A Girl’s Reverie
Mother says, ‘Be in no hurry,
Marriage oft means care and worry.’
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Whoever you are as you read this,
Whatever your trouble or grief,
I want you to know and to heed this:
The day draweth near with relief.
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When your love begins to wane,
Spare me from the cruel pain
Of all speech that tells me so -
Spare me words, for I shall know,
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The winds came out of the west one day,
And hurried the clouds before them;
And drove the shadows and mists away,
And over the mountains bore them.
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How can I wait until you come to me?
The once fleet mornings linger by the way;
Their sunny smiles touched with malicious glee
At my unrest, they seem to pause, and play
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