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Rushes tall, and moss, and grass grew | Earth, one time, put on a frolic mood,

round it,

Playful sunbeams darted in and found it,

Drops of dew stole in by night, and crowned it,

But no foot of man e'er trod that way;

Earth was young and keeping holiday.

Monster fishes swam the silent main, Stately forests waved their giant branches,

Mountains hurled their snowy avalanches,

Mammoth creatures stalked across the plain;

Nature revelled in grand mysteries;
But the little fern was not of these,
Did not number with the hills and
trees,

Only grew and waved its wild sweet
way,-

No one came to note it day by day.

Heaved the rocks and changed the

mighty motion

Of the deep, strong currents of the

ocean;

Moved the plain and shook the haughty wood,

Crushed the little fern in soft moist clay,
Covered it, and hid it safe away.
O, the long, long centuries since that
day!

O, the agony, O, life's bitter cost,
Since that useless little fern was lost!

Useless! Lost! There came a thoughtful man

Searching Nature's secrets, far and deep;

From a fissure in a rocky steep He withdrew a stone, o'er which there ran Fairy pencillings, a quaint design, Veinings, leafage, fibres clear and fine, And the fern's life lay in every line! So, I think, God hides some souls away, Sweetly to surprise us the last day.

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Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss
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I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone. 137
I loved to hear the war-horn cry

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Heap on more wood! — the wind is chill.. 107
Hear the sledges with the bells..........
Heigh-ho! daisies and buttercups!........ 282
He is gone on the mountain
He kept his honesty and truth
He meets, by heavenly chance express... 253
Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow.
Her hands are cold; her face is white.....
He said, "O brother, where's the use of
climbing?"

He's gane, he 's gane! he 's frae us torn ..
He sleeps not here; in hope and prayer.
He's now upon the spectre's back.
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He who died at Azan sends........
Hie upon Hielands....

High hopes that burned like stars sublime 212
High walls and huge the body may confine 168
His echoing axe the settler swung
Hither thou com'st. The busy wind all
night..

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I love to wander through the woodlands
hoary
I'm sitting on the stile, Mary
I'm wearin' awa', Jean...

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In Athens, when all learning centred there 326
In a valley, centuries ago.

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I sought thee round about, O thou my God 26
Is there a whim-inspiréd fool.
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