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ENOCH ARDEN.
‘Under the palm-tree.’ That was nothing to her:
No meaning there: she closed the Book and slept:
When lo! her Enoch sitting on a height,
Under a palm-tree, over him the Sun:
‘He is gone,’ she thought, ‘he is happy, he is singing
Hosanna in the highest: yonder shines
The Sun of Righteousness, and these be palms
Whereof the happy people strowing cried
"Hosanna in the highest!"' Here she woke,
Resolved, sent for him and said wildly to him
‘There is no reason why we should not wed.’
‘Then for God’s sake,’ he answer’d, ‘both our sakes,
So you will wed me, let it be at once.’
No meaning there: she closed the Book and slept:
When lo! her Enoch sitting on a height,
Under a palm-tree, over him the Sun:
‘He is gone,’ she thought, ‘he is happy, he is singing
Hosanna in the highest: yonder shines
The Sun of Righteousness, and these be palms
Whereof the happy people strowing cried
"Hosanna in the highest!"' Here she woke,
Resolved, sent for him and said wildly to him
‘There is no reason why we should not wed.’
‘Then for God’s sake,’ he answer’d, ‘both our sakes,
So you will wed me, let it be at once.’
So these were wed and merrily rang the bells,
Merrily rang the bells and they were wed.
But never merrily beat Annie’s heart.
A footstep seem’d to fall beside her path,
She knew not whence; a whisper on her ear,
She knew not what; nor loved she to be left
Merrily rang the bells and they were wed.
But never merrily beat Annie’s heart.
A footstep seem’d to fall beside her path,
She knew not whence; a whisper on her ear,
She knew not what; nor loved she to be left
