Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Music of Laughter

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2476734Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill, Volume II — Music of LaughterLetitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XIII.


CONFIDENCE.


She had that charming laugh which, like a song,
    The song of a spring-bird, wakes suddenly
When we least look for it. It lingered long
    Upon the ear, one of the sweet things we
Treasure unconsciously. As steals along
    A stream in sunshine, stole its melody,
As musical as it was light and wild,
The buoyant spirit of some fairy child;
Yet mingled with soft sighs, that might express
The depth and truth of earnest tenderness.



Blanchard’s title is:

MUSIC OF LAUGHTER