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PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.
(Died July 13, 1886.)
Reared from the race unfaltering hope endows
With happier lore than rigid reason shrines,
For you, dead friend, midsummer tamely twines
The exequial wreath to rest on those pale brows!
You should have died with airy and dulcet vows
Of mating birds in April shades and shines,
And when the glooms of your dear Georgian pines
Had flecked with furtive green their feathery boughs!
With happier lore than rigid reason shrines,
For you, dead friend, midsummer tamely twines
The exequial wreath to rest on those pale brows!
You should have died with airy and dulcet vows
Of mating birds in April shades and shines,
And when the glooms of your dear Georgian pines
Had flecked with furtive green their feathery boughs!
For as the earlier dews of Spring will throng
Bright on some flower that gives to breeze or bee
Its delicate symmetries and fragrant breath,
Even so, for years, clung shining round your song
The certitude of immortality,
The faith in resurrection after death!
Bright on some flower that gives to breeze or bee
Its delicate symmetries and fragrant breath,
Even so, for years, clung shining round your song
The certitude of immortality,
The faith in resurrection after death!
August 30, 1886.
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