O! SNATCHED AWAY IN BEAUTY'S BLOOM. O! SNATCHED away in beauty's bloom, Their leaves, the earliest of the year, And oft by yon blue gushing stream Away! we know that tears are vain, That Death nor heeds nor hears distress: Will this unteach us to complain, Or make one mourner weep the less? LORD BYRON THE TWO VILLAGES. All around it the forest trees Of soaring hawk and screaming crow; Over the river, under the hill, There I see in the cloudy night Fires that gleam from the smithy's door, And in the roads no grasses grow, For the wheels that hasten to and fro. In that village on the hill Never is sound of smithy or mill; The houses are thatched with grass and flowers, Never a clock to tell the hours; The marble doors are always shut; You cannot enter in hall or hut; In that village under the hill, CHRISTMAS. And, weeping and sighing, wants to go ROSE TERRY. CHRISTMAS. LIFT up your heads, ye gates! swing wide Forth let the Filial Godhead ride On wings of cherubim up-borne. Nor dare, thou flushed and flattered East, On mountain tops bright heralds stand And publish over sea and land The certain tidings glad and sweet. He comes! The sky is all on fire, ABRAHAM COLES. A LITTLE WHILE BEYOND the smiling and the weeping I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home! Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come! Beyond the blooming and the fading I shall be soon; Beyond the shining and the shading, Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home! Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come! Beyond the rising and the setting Beyond the calming and the fretting, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home! Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come! |