Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
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BEFORE DAWN.
No sun with her; but, far below
Her rising bosom's ebb and flow,
Rocked on her heart's first whisperings,
Couches the babe with folded wings;
Dreaming, yet half awake, he lies,
And starts and trembles in her eyes.
Her rising bosom's ebb and flow,
Rocked on her heart's first whisperings,
Couches the babe with folded wings;
Dreaming, yet half awake, he lies,
And starts and trembles in her eyes.
Virgin of any mortal stain,
Untouched by passion or by pain;
Not yet, O young delicious morning,
Have Love's rays overshot the dawning;
But cool light airs of childhood play
About the breaking of thy day.
Untouched by passion or by pain;
Not yet, O young delicious morning,
Have Love's rays overshot the dawning;
But cool light airs of childhood play
About the breaking of thy day.
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