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Heaven deepening within heaven,

like the skies

THE LAST FLOWERS.

Of autumn nights without a shadow DOST thou remember that autumnal

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Lest the high sun of heaven itseif

should prove Powerless to save from that phantasmal sphere Wherein thy spirit wandered-if the flowers

That pressed around thy feet seemed but to bloom

In lone Gethsemanes, through starless hours,

When all who loved had left thee to thy doom!

Oh, yet believe that in that hollow vale

Where thy soul lingers, waiting to attain

So much of Heaven's sweet grace as shall avail

To lift its burden of remorseful pain,

My soul shall meet thee, and its heaven forego

Till God's great love on both, one hope, one Heaven, bestow.

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WILLIAM YOUNG.

THE HORSEMAN.

"There be no deeper draught than thisNo sharper pain

-no sweeter bliss"Nor anything which yet I crave

WHO is it rides with whip and spur-This side, or yet beyond the grave — Or madman, or king's messenger?

The night is near, the lights begin To glimmer from the roadside inn,

And o'er the moorland, waste and wide,

The mists behind the horseman ride.

"Ho, there within -a stirrup-cup! No time have I to sleep or sup. "An honest cup!-and mingle well The juices that have still the spell

"To banish doubt and care, and slay

The ghosts that prowl the king's highway."

"And whither dost thou ride, my friend?"

"My friend, to find the roadway's end."

His eyeballs shone: he caught and quaffed,

With scornful lips, the burning draught.

"Yea, friend, I ride to prove my life;

If there be guerdon worth the strife

"If after loss, and after gain, And after bliss, and after pain,

"All this, all this I ride to know; So pledge me, gray-beard, ere I go."

"But gold thou hast: and youth is thine,

And on thy breast the blazoned sign

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A bee flew in at my window,.

Abide not in the land of dreams,

Abide with me! fast falls the eventide,

A bird sang sweet and strong,

A blue-eyed child that sits amid the noon,
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase),
A brace of sinners, for no good,.

A certain artist - I've forgot his name -
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound,
A clergyman who longed to trace,.

A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun,
Across the narrow beach we flit,
Across the steppe we journeyed,
A district school, not far away,
Advancing Spring profusely spreads abroad,
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever,

A face that should content me wondrous well,
Afar in the desert I love to ride,

A fellow in a market town,

A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by,
A fox, full fraught with seeming sanctity,
Afraid of critics! an unworthy fear,.
After so long an absence,

After this feud of yours and mine,
Against her foes Religion well defends,
Against her mouth she pressed the rose,
Age has now,.

A good man there was of religion,

A great mind is an altar on a hill,

A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,

A harmless fellow, wasting useless days,

Ah, deeply the minstrel has felt all he sings,
Ah, happy day, refuse to go!

Ah me! forevermore,

Ah! my heart is weary waiting;

Ab, my Perilla! dost thou grieve to see

A holy stillness, beautiful and deep,

Ah, real thing of bloom and breath,

Ah then, how sweetly closed those crowded days!.

A hundred noble wishes fill my heart,

Ah, what avails the sceptred race?

Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven?.

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb?

A keen insistent hint of dawn,

Alas- how light a cause may move,

Alas, long suffering and most patient God,

Alas! my noble boy! that thou shouldst die!
Alas! the setting sun,

Alas! they had been friends in youth,
Alas, to our discomfort and his own,
A life on the ocean wave,

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All beautiful things bring sadness,

All change; no death,

All conquest-flushed, from prostrate Python, came,

All day I heard a humming in my ears,.

All joy was bereft me the day that you left me,

All moveless stand the ancient cedar trees,

All promise is poor dilatory man,

"All quiet along the Potomac," they say,

All round the lake the wet woods shake,

All the kisses that I have given,

"All the rivers run into the sea,' All the world's a stage,

All things have a double power,

All things once are things for ever;
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
All winter drives along the darkened air,
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,.
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
Almost at the root,

Alone I walked the ocean strand,

A lovely sky, a cloudless sun,

Although I enter not,

A man's life is a tower, .

A man so various that he seemed to be,

A man there came, whence none could tell,

Amid the elms that interlace,

A monarch soul hath ruled thyself, O Queen,

Among so many, can He care?

And are ye sure the news is true?.
And greedy Avarice by him did ride,

And if my voice break forth, 'tis not that now,
And is there care in heaven?

And is the swallow gone?

And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace,

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And were that best, Love, dreamless, endless sleep?.
And yet how lovely in thine age of woe,
Angels are we, that, once from heaven exiled,
Anon tired laborers bless their sheltering home,

An original something, fair maid,

Answer me, burning stars of night!

A poet! He hath put his heart to school,

A power hid in pathos; a fire veiled in cloud:
April is in;

Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim,
Around, around, flew each sweet sound,
Arrived at home, how then they gazed around,
A sad old house by the sea,

As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
As doctors give physic by way of prevention,
As dyed in blood, the streaming vines appear,

A sensitive plant in a garden grew,

A sentence hath formed a character,.

A sentinel angel sitting high in glory,
A serener blue,

As I came round the harbor buoy,.
A simple child,

A simple, sodded mound of earth,

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Becalmed along the azure sky,

Because I hold it sinful to despond,

As I was sitting in a wood,.

Ask me no more; the moon may draw the sea,

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,

Ask me why I send you here,.

A slanting ray of evening light,.

As leaves turned red,.

As light November snows to empty nests,

As lords their laborers' hire delay,

A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers,

A sower went forth to sow,

As precious gums are not for lasting fire,
As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay,
As slow our ship her foaming track,
As sweet as the breath that goes,

As sweet desire of day before the day,

A steed, a steed of matchless speed!".

A street there is in Paris famous,

As thoughts possess the fashion of the mood,
As through the land at eve we went,.

A story of Ponce de Leon,

A summer mist on the mountain heights,
As virtuous men pass mildly away,

As when a little child returned from play,
As when in watches of the night we see,
As woodbine weds the plants,

At dawn the fleet stretched miles away,
At dawn when the jubilant morning broke,

A thing of beauty is a joy forever,.
A thousand daily sects rise up and die,

A thousand years shall come and go,.

At kirk knelt Valborg, the cold altar-stone,

At midnight in his guarded tent,

At our creation, but the word was said;
A traveller across the desert waste,

At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow,
Autobiography! so you say,.

Avoid extremes; and shun the fault of such,
A weary weed, tossed to and fro,

A wet sheet and a flowing sea,

A wife, as tender, and as true withal,

Ay, scatter me well, 'tis a moist spring day,

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where,

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Bards of passion and of mirth,

Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!

Because I feel that, in the heavens above,

Because in a day of my days to come,

Because I wear the swaddling bands of time,

Because love's sigh is but a sigh,

Before I trust my fate to thee,

Behold her there in the evening sun,.

Behold the rocky wall,

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Beneath the hill you may see the mill,

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