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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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How fresh and fair is morn!
The dewbeads dropping bright
Each humble flower adorn,
With coronets of light,
And jewel the rough thorn
With sparks of chrysolite,—
How beautiful is morn!
Her scatter'd gems how bright!