The Rose of Sharon (1857)
by Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (9780217636100)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WOODEN BRIDGE. BY MBS. C. M. SAWYEB. 'T was a sweet spot; You'd seek in vain to find a lovelier one For tender meetings, or a fitter scene For those sad moments, of which every life Has all too many, when the parting hand, 'Mid sobs and tears and passionate laments, Is given, perchance, for the last time, to one Whose presence is the daybeam of our hearts, Whose absence is its night. The dewy haze Of summer morning slept upon the hills And murmurous stream, and on the quiet church That shot its spire above the village roofs, Pointing the way to heaven. Serene and blue The river glided by; upon its breast A fisher's bark and snow-white water-fowls Were brightly mirrored; while, upon the shore, The rustic wife, her sweet babe on her breast, Watching with wifelike love her husband's toil, Oft'called his name and proudly bade him heed The merry cooings of the wondrous babe As its plump hands the sunbeams strove to catch, And he, delighted, instant ceased his toil To chirrup back his love. Upon the scene, As thus the early morning freshly smiled, Two other forms with timid footsteps stole.: : rt; t '. u- '.at- i: , v . 'Uc ('i r' A1 . ' ' ' . ." '"-.,, . . . . 'a?' t. " -i: s-.11 . ) c i . .:, y. . . ., .i .-' '. '. I -'., .'- V -.'ft ." Vi.: -.. ui .'i' """i" . - ' ''i 'L en-; V..ti. ' . .: ''.'. bill I:, 'Ti ', - 1-J I' ], .i], , i f .- . 10 "I C ?. no Downcast and sad-eyed, separate they came, But met with mien of fond and tender love. Their young hands quickly clasped; a long, long gaze Turned, with fast-gathering tears and quivering lip, Upon each other's face, as if in that One look of love and sorrow each fond heart Could stamp itself forever. Who were they ? One was a mai...

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