Ballads for the Times (Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised |
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“Together.”
FOR MUSIC.
The elm-tree of old felt lonely and cold
When wintry winds blew high,
And, looking below, he saw in the snow
The ivy wandering nigh:
And he said, Come twine with those tendrils of thine
My scathed and frozen form,
For heart and hand together we'll stand
And mock at the baffled storm,
Ha, ha! Together.
When wintry winds blew high,
And, looking below, he saw in the snow
The ivy wandering nigh:
And he said, Come twine with those tendrils of thine
My scathed and frozen form,
For heart and hand together we'll stand
And mock at the baffled storm,
Ha, ha! Together.
And so when grief is withering the leaf
And checking hope's young flower,
And frosts do bite with their teeth so white
In disappointment's hour,
Though it might overwhelm either ivy or elm
If alone each stood the strife,
If heart and hand together they stand
They may laugh at the troubles of life,
Ha, ha! Together.
And checking hope's young flower,
And frosts do bite with their teeth so white
In disappointment's hour,
Though it might overwhelm either ivy or elm
If alone each stood the strife,
If heart and hand together they stand
They may laugh at the troubles of life,
Ha, ha! Together.
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