This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... WHITTIER I Some verse there it death cannot touch although It may not nest upon the loftiest height, To spread its pinions in untiring flight Where constellations in resplendence glow; Nor yet by Fancy fondly followed know Her fairy realms of exquisite delight; Nor with Imagination's stopless might Range the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... WHITTIER I Some verse there it death cannot touch although It may not nest upon the loftiest height, To spread its pinions in untiring flight Where constellations in resplendence glow; Nor yet by Fancy fondly followed know Her fairy realms of exquisite delight; Nor with Imagination's stopless might Range the vast regions of our bliss and woe;--For it hath cradled in the human breast Feelings and thoughts with which we would not part; And hath in loving, saving strength possessed The power to move the universal heart, And so will be by all the muses blest As long as joys shall sing, or tears shall start. Such verse, O Whitrier, thy muse employs: For thou dost sing in unaffected lay Of maidens fair, of childhood's glorious day, Of natural things unmixed with base alloys; Dost mint the gold which lies in homely joys, And gently mov'st in such consummate way The human heartstrings to harmonious play, That restful music drowns the world's mad noise. New England lives in thy delightful line: There do her household hearths our love constrain There do her tales with newer beauty shine, Her fields, her woods, her skies, her stormy main; While over all the Power we feel divine Upholds eternal, universal reign. TO A SOILED AND BROKEN VOLUME OF BAYARD TAYLOR'S POEMS Come, lovely waif, to my embrace; With gentlest touch I shall erase All soilure from thy pretty face, Shall tear away the faded dress That mars thy pristine loveliness, And bid the binder clothe anew Thy beauteous form, and there bestrew, With hand by loving taste controlled, His daintiest flowers of gleaming gold. Then shall I gladly house thee where The best of all thy kinsmen fare, And who will give thee welcome room Within the precints of their home, And where thine author e'en would say...
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