Poems by Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb] With Portrait engraved by E. Stodart ... in two volumes |
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CONTRASTS.
A SONG OF THE WIND.
“A venturesome fellow is the Wind: creeping thro' the
keyholes and crannies of a house, he must wot of strange contrasts.”
With their heads on the self-same pillow
A bride and a bridegroom kiss'd,
But the Wind is a venturesome fellow
Who sings: “I can roam where I list:—
A bride and a bridegroom kiss'd,
But the Wind is a venturesome fellow
Who sings: “I can roam where I list:—
“I can creep,—I can crouch,—I can clamber,”
And he whispers, now, soft, overhead,
“Stretch'd out in the very next chamber
Lies a corpse all alone on the bed.”
And he whispers, now, soft, overhead,
“Stretch'd out in the very next chamber
Lies a corpse all alone on the bed.”
| Poems by Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb] | |