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THE HAUNTED SPRING.

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THE HAUNTED SPRING.

Gayly through the mountain glen

The hunter's horn did ring,

As the milk-white doe
Escaped his bow,

Down by the haunted spring. In vain his silver horn he wound, 'Twas echo answering back;

For neither groom nor baying hound
Was on the hunter's track:

In vain he sought the milk-white doe
That made him stray and 'scaped his bow,
For, save himself, no living thing

Was by the silent haunted spring.

The purple heath-bells, blooming fair,
Their fragrance round did fling,
As the hunter lay,
At close of day,

Down by the haunted spring.
A lady fair, in robe of white,

To greet the hunter came;
She kissed a cup with jewels bright,

And pledged him by his name.

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THE HAUNTED SPRING.

"O lady fair," the hunter cried,
"Be thou my love, my blooming
bride,

A bride that well might grace a king!
Fair lady of the haunted spring."

In the fountain clear she stooped,
And forth she drew a ring;
And that loved knight

His faith did plight

Down by the haunted spring.

A FAIRY'S SONG.

But since that day his chase did stray,
The hunter ne'er was seen,

And legends tell he now doth dwell
Within the hills so green;

But still the milk-white doe appears,
And wakes the peasants' evening fears,
While distant bugles faintly ring
Around the lonely haunted spring.

A FAIRY'S SONG.

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LOVER.

Over hill, over dale,

Through bush, through briar,
Over park, over pale,

Through flood, through fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see,
These be rubies, fairy favors,

In those freckles live their savors.

I must go seek some dew-drops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

SHAKESPEARE.

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NOSE AND EYES.

NOSE AND EYES.

Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose;
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong;
The point in dispute was, as all the world knows,
To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

So the Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause
With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning;
While Chief-justice Ear sat to balance the laws,

So famed for his talent in nicely discerning.

"In behalf of the Nose, it will quickly appear,

And your lordship," he said, "will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear,Which amounts to possession time out of mind."

Then holding the spectacles up to the court, -
"Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle
As wide as the ridge of the Nose is; in short,
Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.

"Again, would your lordship a moment suppose
('Tis a case that has happened, and may be again)
That the visage or countenance had not a Nose,

Pray who would or who could wear spectacles then?