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Poems

By the author of "The Patience of Hope" [i.e. Dora Greenwell]
  

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These are the many-coloured beads of life;
Blame me not, gentle reader, if their hues
Should please thee little, for I did but choose
And thread them where I found them, by the strife
Of Time's great ocean cast upon the shore—
Stay Thou with me awhile, and tell them o'er.