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An angel face! its sunny "wealth of hair," In radiant ripples, bathed the graceful throat And dimpled shoulders. - [Hair] An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may! - [Exile] And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll! - [Music] And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world. - [Children] Beneath her drooping lashes slept a world of eloquent meaning; passionate but pure, dreamy, subdued, but, oh, how beautiful! - [Eyes] Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word, That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight, That tenderly sings there in loving delight! Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,-- Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird! - [Names] Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley, on the hill, By the fountain and the rill; Laughing out between the leaves That the loving summer weaves. - [Fairies] Fancy is a fairy, that can hear Ever, the melody of nature's voice, And see all lovely visions that she will. - [Fancy] Give me the eloquent cheek, When blushes burn and die Like thine its changes speak, The spirit's purity. - [Blushes] He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. - [Blindness] I love a hand that meets mine own With grasp that causes some sensation. - [Hand] Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. - [Labor] Love is the greatest of educators. - [Education] No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. - [Melancholy] Those laughing orbs, that borrow From azure-skies the light they wear, Are like heaven--no sorrow Can float o'er hues so fair. - [Eyes] To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives. - [Duty] With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. - [Fidelity] Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside. - [Appearance] The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. - Garden Gossip (st. 3) [Violets] The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. - To F.D. Maurice [Feeling] Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. - To Labor is to Pray [Labor] Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will! - To Labor is to Pray [Labor]
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