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Light on the Mountain-Tops. "In Alpine valleys, they who watch for dawn Look never to the east; but fix their eyes On loftier mountain-peaks of snow, which rise To west or south." |
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Belated. "When at my very feet I saw, With sudden joy, half joy, half awe, Low nestled in a dead log's cleft, One pale Twin-Flower, the last one left." |
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Last Words. (Grave on Cheyenne Mountain.) "And when, remembering me, you come some day And stand there, speak no praise, but only say, 'How she loved us! 'T was that which made her dear!' Those are the words that I shall joy to hear." |
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Esther. "Thou heldest thy race too dear, thyself too cheap; Honor no second place for truth can keep." |
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January. "O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire." |
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May. "No blossom blooms upon thy brightest day So subtly sweet as memories which unfold In aged hearts which in thy sunshine lie, To sun themselves once more before they die." |
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July. "But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content, Like starry blooms on a new firmament, White lilies float and regally abide." |
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September. "O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped! The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung On wands;" |
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The Story of Boon. "With trembling lips he spoke." |
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"Sudden a clash of arms,—a gleam Of fire of torches!" |
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Songs of Battle. "Old as the world—no other things to old!" |
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Charlotte Cushman. |
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The Riviera. "O peerless shore of peerless sea! From all the world we turn to thee." |
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