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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...so lily fair, In her sadness, in her gladness, Stealing round me unaware; Dusky shadows of the cairngormi All among her golden hair. Haply, so did willful Annie, With the tender eyes and mouth, And the languors and the angers Of her birth-land of the South: Still my darling was my darling--"I can love," I said, "for both." So I left the pleasure-places, Gayest, gladdest, best of all--Hedge-row mazes, lanes of daisies, Bluebirds' twitter, blackbirds' call--For the robbing of the crow's nest, For the games of race and balL So I left my book of poems Lying in the hawthorn's shade, Milky flowers sometimes for hours Drifting down the page unread. "He has found a better poet; I will read with him," I said. Thus he led me, hither, thither, To his young heart's wild content, A Childs Wisdom. Where so surly and so curly, With his black horns round him ben. Fed the ram that ruled the meadow--For where'er he called I went: Where the old oak, black and blasted, Trembled on his knotty knees, Where the nettle teased the cattle, Where the wild crab-apple trees Blushed with bitter fruit to mock us; 'Twas not I that was to please: Where the ox, with horn for pushing-Chafed within his prison stall; Where the long-leaved poison-ivy Clambered up the broken wall: Ah! no matter, still I loved him First and last and best of all. When before the frowning master Late and lagging in we came, I would stand up straight before him, And would take my even blame: Ah! my darling was my darling; Good or bad 'twas all the same. One day, when the lowering storm-cloud South and east began to frown, Flat along the waves of grasses, Like a swimmer, he lay down, A Childs Wisdom. With his head propped up and resting On his two arms strong and brown. On the sloping ri...

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