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Random poem: Poems (Storrie)/Love's Illusions

by: Agnes Louisa Storrie

Love's Illusions.

I know a creek, a little creek
 Hid in a hill's embraces,
Where they who still for Beauty seek
 May find her lingering traces.
The willows, with long tresses bent,
 Shadow the water over;
The air has caught a mystic scent—
 Well, yes! perhaps it's clover!

I know a beach, a little beach
 Of snowy sand, bespangled
With jewels, quaintly carven; each
 In strange sea-growths entangled;
The wavelet softly breaks and curls,
 Singing in broken trebles,
And stirs the opals and the pearls
 ———Of course they may be pebbles!

I know a song, a lovely song,
 One happy thought expressing;
I hear it rising, full and strong,
 The listening air caressing.
No mortal knows so rare a tone,
 Nor lark in raptures airy;
Some spirit 'tis that calls my own
 ———They say it's only Mary!

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