 | The poetical works of William H. C. Hosmer |  |
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TWIN ACORNS.
On one fair stem two acorns grew,
Browned by the golden summer weather;
Together drank the silvery dew,
Rocked in the lulling air together.
Browned by the golden summer weather;
Together drank the silvery dew,
Rocked in the lulling air together.
Crown jewels of the royal oak,
A brief, brief time his forehead wore them,
For the black tempest came, and broke
The leaf-fringed diadem that bore them.
A brief, brief time his forehead wore them,
For the black tempest came, and broke
The leaf-fringed diadem that bore them.
When the wild storm was overpast,
A maiden, through the forest hieing,
Chancing around her eye to cast,
Found the twin acorns lowly lying.
A maiden, through the forest hieing,
Chancing around her eye to cast,
Found the twin acorns lowly lying.
She picked them up with hand of snow,
A lesson from their fate to borrow,
Deeming them types of love in woe,
Of two fond hearts unchanged by sorrow:
A lesson from their fate to borrow,
Deeming them types of love in woe,
Of two fond hearts unchanged by sorrow:
Saying—“When suns no longer shine,
And the red rose of joy is blighted,
Oh, that some breast would beat with mine,
True to the last, and disunited!”
And the red rose of joy is blighted,
Oh, that some breast would beat with mine,
True to the last, and disunited!”
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