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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IN ARCADY In yon hollow Damon lies, Lost in slumber deep. (Hush, hush, ye shepherd girls Break not his sleep.) Phyllis passes tiptoe by; Whither is she hieing ? (Peep, peep, ye shepherd girls He for her is dying.) Now she pauses, now she bends, Ah, she kissed him purely. (Look away, ye shepherd girls Frown, frown demurely.)See he clips her in his arms, She who was the proudest. (Laugh, laugh, ye shepherd girls, Laugh, laugh your loudest.) LOVE A SONATA Love's Sweetness Adagio Love thou art sweet. Sweet?only perfect sweet of all; For there is nothing sweet that hath not friend in thee That hath not root, and flower, and fruit, and end in thee, O Love? How gracious are thy feet, For all things as they fall Grow up and bud and blossom, and smile away all sorrow; Thy pathway is a festival, And all before thee goes a light, that shines a bright to-morrow Of joy undreamt to barren lands, And desolate blank rocks, And sea-deserted sands, The prey of wind and wave and time and thunder-shocks. Sweet thou art, O love, Who makest all things move With undulating grace of joyousness; For rippling from thy face Go forth the waves of grace That, like a smile, spread over all the earth, And spreading bless, And sink beneath, And circle round each dark and cheerless thing % With low vibration musical, With rings of mirth; Till one and all Arise and free Themselves from death, And no so tender germ, Or naked worm, Feels any more abandoned or alone; But every one, Stirred as a silence cloven by a wing, Doth start, Awakened to the heart With tender shocks of new felicity. Ay, thou art sweet, For to thee ever fleet All beings young or fresh or beautif...
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