The Token, Or, Affection's Gift; A Christmas and New Year's Present
by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (9781150783906)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 18 Original Publisher: A. Edwards Subjects: Annuals Literary United States Gift books Non-Classifiable Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Inspirational Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE ONLY DAUGHTER. BY O. W. HOLMES. They bid me strike the idle strings, As if my summer days Had shaken sunbeams from their wings, To warm my autumn lays; They bring to me their painted urn, As if it were not time To lift my gauntlet and to spurn The lists of boyish rhyme; And, were it not that I have still Some weakness in my heart That clings around my stronger will, And pleads for gentler art, Perchance I had not turned away The thoughts grown tame with toil, To cheat this lone and pallid ray, That wastes the midnight oil. Alas with every year I feel Some roses leave my brow; Too young for wisdom's tardy seal, Too old for garlands now; Yet, while the dewy breath of spring Steals o'er the tingling air, And spreads and fans each emerald whig The forest soon shall wear, How bright the opening year would seem, Had I one look like thine, To meet me when the morning beam Calls back its cares to mine Too long I bear this lonely lot, That bids my heart run wild To press the lips that love me not, To clasp the stranger's child. How oft, beyond the dashing seas, Amidst those royal bowers, Where danced the lilacs in the breeze, And swung the chestnut flowers, I wandered like a wearied slave Whose morning task is done, To watch the little hands that gave Their whiteness to the sun; To revel in the bright young eyes, Whose lustre sparkled through The sable fringe of so...

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