The Rose of Sharon
by Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (9780217133630)

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 INDIAN'S DREAM OF HEAVEN. BY SARAH C. EDGARTON. " Is it for this I" ve watched through starlight hours, And dawnings weary with o'erburdened hopes 7 Is it for this I 've climbed for balmy flowers Up the rough cliffs and rocky-bosomed slopes 7 My God is it for this, that now they lie Withered and scentless on the brow of death ? Oh I have watched and prayed till o'er the sky The purple clouds have gathered, and the breath Of morning roses, wafted through the boughs Of the dim forest, has borne down my pains Till I forgot them. I have watched with vows Solemn and fervent, till these dear remains Of my young idol have been dispossessed, Like some bright ruin of their deity. Here must she sleep, ? a long and dreamless rest: Earth has no smile, no voice of love for me " The old man bent his head. Wo ? agony, Darker and sterner than the bolt of death, Shook its black wing across his sunken eye: Groans were wrung out on every quivering breath, As though his soul were grating off its chains. He knelt upon a grave. The parting ray Of the red sunset streamed, in golden veins, Over the woodland violets that lay Muffled in purple shadows. Music, low, Yet thrilling, swept along from the lone streams That rippled through the glade, hiding their flow Beneath the wings of vines, whose verdant beams Were soft as glances of unattered love. O beautiful to youth and joy that scene, Where brightness met with music in the grove, And there embraced with tone and smile serene. But unto age and misery, O, nev r more To the worn heart returns the softening ray, The thrilling tone: its days of song are o'er: Midnight has beauties sweeter than the day. He loveth not the light, ? that dim old man;, But, mantling up his head in heavy wo, Turns where the southern breezes softly fan His...

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