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miscellaneous poems.
Call I in vain? my children, the young voices
Join to your mother's! bid wild echo ring
With the loved name that still my heart rejoices,
As in our love's first fair and joyous spring.
Join to your mother's! bid wild echo ring
With the loved name that still my heart rejoices,
As in our love's first fair and joyous spring.
Would I could hear his steps, as music cheering
To the lone watching heart—bid him draw near,
And from the brow, pale with love's anxious fearing,
Kiss the deep sadness and starting tear!
To the lone watching heart—bid him draw near,
And from the brow, pale with love's anxious fearing,
Kiss the deep sadness and starting tear!
Hark! 'tis his step! quick, quick, and haste to meet him!
E'en through the darkness I can mark his gaze
Hasten, my children! warmly, kindly greet him.
Home safe! to heaven now give thy grateful praise.
E'en through the darkness I can mark his gaze
Hasten, my children! warmly, kindly greet him.
Home safe! to heaven now give thy grateful praise.
THE LOVE OF OTHER DAYS.
(FROM THE GERMAN.)
It was the sunset hour, and richly fell the gleam,
In beauty blended o'er the earth, rose-hued and golden beam;
In beauty blended o'er the earth, rose-hued and golden beam;
