One
of them
Kind influence. Lo! their orbs burn more bright,
can only be read, metrically, by drawing out influence into three
marked syllables, shortening the long monosyllable, Lo! and
lengthening the short one, their.
June is sweet and soft in its rhythm, and inexpressibly pathetic.
There is an illy subdued sorrow and intense awe coming up, per force
as it were to the surface of the poet's gay sayings about his grave,
which we find thrilling us to the soul.
And what if cheerful shouts, at noon,
Come, from the village sent,
Or songs of maids, beneath the moon
With fairy laughter blent?
And what if, in the evening light,
Betrothed lovers walk in sight
Of my low monument?
I would the lovely scene around
Might know no sadder sight nor sound.
I know, I know I should not see
The season's glorious show,
Nor would its brightness shine for me
Nor its wild music flow,
But if, around my place of sleep,
The friends I love should come to weep,
They might not haste to go
Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom
Should keep them lingering by my tomb.
Innocent Child and Snow-White Flower, is remarkable only for the
deficiency of a foot in one of its verses.
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