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Art and Fashion

With other sketches, songs and poems. By Charles Swain

Swain, Charles (1801-1874)

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II.

“NIGHT” AND “MORNING.”

THE VICAR'S BLIND DAUGHTER.

CRADLE SONG.

THE WOODLAND WAY.

NOT MY OWN.

FREAKS OF FATE.

WATCHING AND WAITING.

CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN.

LINES WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF MISS FLEMING.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR JOHN POTTER, M.P., FOUNDER OF THE FREE LIBRARY.

OLD FRIENDS AND OLD TIMES.

TO THE YOUNG.

A HEART FOR EVERY ONE.

THANK GOD FOR ALL.

THE CROSS OF CHRIST.

THE OLD EVENINGS.

THE CHARITIES OF LIFE.

WAITING FOR THE COUNTESS.

FAITHFUL AND FAITHLESS.

ANGELS.

LOVE THEE?

MY LIFE WAS LIKE A FOUNTAIN.

THINKING OF OTHER DAYS.

LET NOBODY KNOW.

WAIT TILL I PUT ON MY BONNET.

THE GARDEN STREAM.

THE HAND OF A FRIEND.

NE'ER WILL I FORSAKE THEE, MOTHER.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF HENRY DRINKWATER BIRCH, AGED SEVEN YEARS.

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NOT MY OWN.

I told my lips they must disguise
The secret of my soul;
But oh, my heart flew to my eyes,
And told almost the whole!

Oh, eyes too swift of love to speak,
No more such thoughts reveal!
'Twas vain: Love next upon my cheek
Wrote all I would conceal!

And thus, by every glance betray'd,
My hidden love made known,
I'm of my very heart afraid,
For it seems not my own!