The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844. Various
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Название: The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844

Автор: Various

Издательство: Public Domain

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      Succeeds the keen and frosty night.

      Thou comest not when violets lean

      O’er wandering brooks and springs unseen,

      Or columbines, in purple dressed,

      Nod o’er the ground-bird’s hidden nest.

      Thou waitest late, and com’st alone,

      When woods are bare and birds are flown,

      And frosts and shortening days portend

      The aged year is near his end.

      Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye

      Look through its fringes to the sky,

      Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall

      A flower from its cerulean wall.

      I would that thus, when I shall see

      The hour of death draw near to me,

      Hope, blossoming within my heart,

      May look to heaven as I depart.

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Heures, prayers.

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Float.

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This allusion is to Byrant’s lines ‘To the Fringed Gentian,’ a poem so replete with truth and beauty, that we cannot resist the inclination to quote it here.

Ed. Knickerbocker.Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,And coloured with the heaven’s own blue.That openest, when the quiet lightSucceeds the keen and frosty night.Thou comest not when violets leanO’er wandering brooks and springs unseen,Or columbines, in purple dressed,Nod o’er the ground-bird’s hidden nest.Thou waitest late, and com’st alone,When woods are bare and birds are flown,And frosts and shortening days portendThe aged year is near his end.Then doth thy sweet and quiet eyeLook through its fringes to the sky,Blue—blue—as if that sky let fallA flower from its cerulean wall.I would that thus, when I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart,May look to heaven as I depart.
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