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FOR THE MEETING OF T… MEDICAL SOCIETY, 1859 'T is sweet to fight our battles o… And crown with honest praise The gray old chief, who strikes no…
PART FIRST THE KNIGHT The tale I tell is gospel true, As all the bookmen know, And pilgrims who have strayed to v…
‘Will I come?’ That is pleasant!… If the gun that I carry has ever… And which was the muster-roll-ment… That missed your old comrade who c… You see me as always, my hand on t…
DEAREST, a look is but a ray Reflected in a certain way; A word, whatever tone it wear, Is but a trembling wave of air; A touch, obedience to a clause
THERE 's a thing that grows by t… And springs in the shade of the la… The lily shrinks, and the rose tur… When they feel its breath in the s… And the tulip curls its leaves in…
LADY, life’s sweetest lesson wou… Come thou with me to Love’s encha… High overhead the trellised roses… Beneath thy feet behold the feathe… A leaf without a flower.
AND can it be you’ve found a plac… Within this consecrated space, That makes so fine a show, For one of Rip Van Winkle’s race… And is it really so?
I saw the curl of his waving lash, And the glance of his knowing eye, And I knew that he thought he was… As his steed went thundering by. And he may ride in the rattling gi…
As Life’s unending column pours, Two marshalled hosts are seen, Two armies on the trampled shores That Death flows black between. One marches to the drum-beat’s rol…
THIRTY-SIXTH VARIATION THIS shred of song you bid me br… Is snatched from fancy’s embers; Ah, when the lips forget to sing, The faithful heart remembers!
THE DIVINE VOICE Go seek thine earth-born sisters,—… That all obey,—the sad and silent… These only, while the hosts of He… Smile never; ask them what their s…
THAT age was older once than now… In spite of locks untimely shed, Or silvered on the youthful brow; That babes make love and children… That sunshine had a heavenly glow,
SHINE soft, ye trembling tears o… That strew the mourning skies; Hushed in the silent dews of night The harp of Erin lies. What though her thousand years hav…
IT is a pity and a shame—alas! al… To tread the trodden grapes again,… so it is; The purple vintage long is past, w… clusters bursting so
(TERPSICHORE) Read at the Annual Dinner of the… Cambridge, August 24, 1843. IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant… In closest frock and Cinderella s…