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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: WITH A ROSEBUD WITH A ROSEBUD I HIS fair rosebud, Elsie, see, Gathered by my hand for thee ? While the morning yet was new, And its leaves still wet with dew. It may die ? but if for thee, Who would not the rosebud be ? Shall I tell thee to my thought Whom its fresh young beauty brought ? Conscious that in turn to thee It can bring no thought of me ? By this token know, young maid, Rosebuds are not all that fade. Wouldst thou quite believe, if told, That I was not always old ? Yet the floweret prithee take; Wear it for the giver's sake. Though it breathe to thee in sooth, But of beauty, now, and youth, When it fades into the sear, It may then suggest me, dear. WITH A ROSE ADY, lest they should betray, On thy lips this rose I lay, Not its petals to surprise With a hue that theirs outvies, Not to shame them to confess Fragrance of the Rose is less ? Only with a rose to seal Rosebud lips, lest they reveal ? Faint unfolding, in their sleep ? What a rose's heart should keep. Eden since, no wizard knows Spell that bindeth like a rose ? Flower of Love, the last to leave, Bud that blossomed first for Eve. WITH A ROSE With my rose for lock and key None shall pick thy lips, pardie But to me if they unclose ? All is safe beneath the rose. ELUDED JHY dost thou come to me and but in dreams, Dreams of the night and visions of the day ? As light, as life, thy presence to me seems, And yet I do not bid thee come nor stay. Is it that in the still and hush of night, Thou hearest my heart call pleadingly for thee ? That in the brightness of the noonday light Thou dost alone my shadowy beckoning see ? And rushing softly, swiftly, as from skies afar, Fall'st on my breast, a throbb...
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