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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: gamble. T OHN Frost, old Nature's jeweller, had beautified the leas, And the lustre of his fret-work was twinkling on the trees, As we ramble o'er the meadows in a meditative ease. We had left the town behind us for a roaming holiday, Beneath an arc of gloom, all dark and indistinct it thefc And the feta, As we ja. i aaand - - it And the fog was wreathed about it like a robe of iron-gray. But a carpeting of leaflets, and a canopy of blue, And the mystery of ether as the warming sunshine grew, Sent a mellow thrill of happiness our eager spirits through. And over lanes, where Winter bluff had shook his hoary beard, Where in the naked hedgerows the broodless nests appear'd, And the brown leaves of the beech-tree were with silver gloss veneer'd. We wandered and we pondered till half the morn was spent, And the red orb through the tangled boughs his cunning vigour sent, And the valley mists all melted at his glance omnipotent. Dim on a sloping hill-side, clothed in a misty pall, Stands a turret grey and hoary, where the ancient ivies crawl, Their Arab arms round casement, sill, and door, and mould'ring wall. And there we halted half-an-hour within a roofless hall, 'Neath a bower of wildest ivy hanging downwards from the wall, Bearing in its grand luxuriance a flower funereal. There we talked of the gay plumes erst bent to pass the lintel old, The maidens that were moved to smile at gallant wooers bold, The jovial nights of brave carouse, the wine-cups manifold. And all the faded glories of the mediaeval time, When the age was in its manhood, and the land was in its prime, And manly deeds were chanted in a bold heroic rhyme. Then, plucking each a sprig, bedecked with simple yello...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217355421 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217355420 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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