An Idyl of the South

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34 AN IDYL OP THE SOUTH.
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How sweet to think that, if the golden grains, , \ Of life s imperial harvests never fall < -. , . :, > ~r J Upon our threshing floors, there still remains .. ;, . . // A sheaf for gleaners, that we, after all, May follow, and behind the reapers wains, r ;, >. /. !vV Take up love s scattered handfuls, though but small. R That Fortunatus, where he passes through, r:&. : /; Must still leave work for loving hands to do. . / > .
55 Before the world, I hold that no
...ne of these:, , ;J; . , , The Shushan slave, the Oreb shepherdess, : /i -[^:- Nor Moab s gleaner, ever had the ease Of carriage, grace of speech, the stateliness Of step and pose, nor had the art to please And charm with symphonies of form and dress, Nor had such wond rous eyes, such lovely mouth, As had this blue-eyed daughter of the South!
\ THE OCTOROON. 35 .
Had priest or prophet ever heard her singing, Or seen her, where the clover was in bloom, Wuding knee-deep, while larks were upward springing, And winds could scarcely breathe for want of room Thus seen her from the dappled hillsides bringing The cows home, in the sunset s golden gloom, Our good old Bible would have had much more Of love and romance mixed with sacred lore.


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