In token of the love you gave,
The faith, the trust, reposed in me,
When our young hearts were glad and free,
I plant these flowers upon your grave! The world is far too poor to give
A value like it took away;
I nevermore a joyous day,
Since…
Ho, for the West! where virgin soilInvites the willing laborer's toil;Where lands as broad as either sea,The home of millions yet to be,Await the touch of hoe and share,Their dark brown richness to prepare,The seed to hold, the fruit to give;That…
The year is young; and hope withinOur hearts is gently stirred,As is the breast - upon her nest -Of tender mother bird.Harsh fate checked ambition's flightAnd fears our hearts have filled;And all ahead seemed dark and dead,As blighting fate had…
When once the mountain stream has mingled with the sea.
Think you it can again a mountain stream 'er be?
Does it not take the grander and more awful form
Of the blue waters, where abides the king of storm?
So, lives that once have mingled in…
The old year's dead! The new year's born! The night has passed! Has come the morn! Another link in life's long chain Is rounded out in human pain!
"Ring out the old! Ring in the new!
"Ring out the false! Ring in the true!"
'Tis easier said by far…
A wild, wild chase it is that Love gives man,But where's the man who would not take the run?
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It's something more to give them 'tis to take,At least most men I've met complain 'tis so.
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I love the world because 'tis good I should,And yet I…
When troubles dark and stormy Thou seest fit to send, We beg Thee to Thy servants Thy precious grace to lend.
O, Father and the Son,
We pray, Thy will be done.
When death, the stern dark reaper, Takes from our jealous care Those we most dearly…
Too long
I've waited here
For thee, my love, the light
Of evening star hath lent the spell
And dream of its sweet beauty to the song
Of night so long a while, the spell
Doth wake my sighs, my light,
I've waited here
Too long.
A sacred spot is this beside this grave:Here lies the one who nursed me at her breastAsleep in ever boundless, endless rest,Beyond the reach of earth's wild-aching craveTo live, beyond the grasp of fears that braveThe protests of the soul. Divine…
