Mary Weston Fordham Poems

Bright and beautiful art thou,
Autumn flowers crown thy brow,
Golden-rod and Aster blue,
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Night and a starless sky,
Ship on wild billows tost,
With tattered sails and opening seams,
And deck bestrewn with falling beams,
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Sleep, love sleep,
The night winds sigh,
In soft lullaby.
The Lark is at rest
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All hail! thou gorgeous sunset,
With thy gold and purple clouds,
Tinting the vast horizon,
Like shadowy, fleecy shrouds.
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'Cast down your bucket where you are,'
From burning sands or Polar star
From where the iceberg rears its head
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'Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright,
And dewdrops sparkled clear;
And the hills and the vales of this Western land
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Hail Flag of the Union! Hail Flag of the free!
That floateth so proudly o'er land and o'er sea
Thy Stars and thy Stripes, in grandeur doth wave
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Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love-
And not even the fires are caught;
Well, you know I must be at the office-
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Columbia, all hail!
May thy banner ne'er be furled
Till Liberty, with her beauteous rays,
Enlighten all the world.
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Come and listen to the chiming
Of St. Michael's merry bells,
When the joyous Christmas morning,
All of Bethlehem's story tells.
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