 | Songs and ballads by Samuel Lover |  |
THE CHILD AND THE GOSSAMER.
A sunbeam was playing thro' flow'rs that hung
Round a casement that look'd to the day,
And its bright touch waken'd a child, who sung
As it woke, and begun its play;
And it play'd with the gossamer beam that shed
Its fairy brightness around its head:
Oh 'twas sweet to see that child so fair,
At play with the dazzling things of air.
Round a casement that look'd to the day,
And its bright touch waken'd a child, who sung
As it woke, and begun its play;
And it play'd with the gossamer beam that shed
Its fairy brightness around its head:
Oh 'twas sweet to see that child so fair,
At play with the dazzling things of air.
Oh ne'er was a lovelier plaything seen,
To childhood's simplicity given:
It seem'd like a delicate link between
The creatures of earth and heaven.
But the sunbeam was cross'd by an angry cloud,
And the gossamer died in the shadowy shroud,
And the child look'd sad when the bright things fled,
And its smile was gone—and its tears were shed.
To childhood's simplicity given:
It seem'd like a delicate link between
The creatures of earth and heaven.
But the sunbeam was cross'd by an angry cloud,
And the gossamer died in the shadowy shroud,
And the child look'd sad when the bright things fled,
And its smile was gone—and its tears were shed.
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Oh gentle child, in thy infant play,
An emblem of life hast thou seen;
For joys are like sunbeams, more fleeting than they,
And sorrows cast shadows between,
And friends, that in moments of brightness are won,
Like gossamer, only are seen in the sun:
Oh! many a lesson of sadness may
Be learn'd, from a joyous child at play.
An emblem of life hast thou seen;
For joys are like sunbeams, more fleeting than they,
And sorrows cast shadows between,
And friends, that in moments of brightness are won,
Like gossamer, only are seen in the sun:
Oh! many a lesson of sadness may
Be learn'd, from a joyous child at play.
| Songs and ballads by Samuel Lover | |