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TWO WORLDS

II

When to-morrow's eve shall fall
We shall say, as night descends,
Again shall say: Ah, yesterday
Scarcely were we friends at all—
Now we have been friends so long;
Our love has grown so deep, so strong.


A NIGHT SONG

(FOR THE GUITAR)

The leaves are dark and large, Love,
'T is blue at every marge, Love;


The stars hang in the tree, Love,
I'll pluck them all for thee, Love;


The crescent moon is curled, Love,
Down at the edge of the world, Love;


I'll run and bring it now, Love,
To crown thy gentle brow, Love;


For in my song.
The summer long,


The stars, and moon, and night, Love,
Are but for thy delight, Love!


LEO

I

Over the roofs of the houses I hear the barking of Leo—
Leo the shaggy, the lustrous, the giant, the gentle Newfoundland.
Dark are his eyes as the night, and black is his hair as the midnight;