Gems of Poetry (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Gems of Poetry

She has mighty streams and rivers Flowing onward glad and free, Bearing ships upon their bosom, With her products toward the sea.

In her arms she bears a burden, Gleaming rich with Ceres' spoils, Golden sheaves of wheat and plenty From Dakota's virgin soil.

In her hand she brings a chaplet Wreathed with bright and fragrant flowers, Intertwined with fruits and grasses From Pomona's choicest bowers. Must we then stand ever knocking Patiently outside the gate, Pleading for the home she merits, Must Dakota longer wait?

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Excerpt from Gems of Poetry

Summer

With sunshine and with flowers she came
In laughing, careless glee,
With silvery voice of rippling streams,
And heart so glad and free.
With sylvan songs of sweet-voiced birds,
With breezes soft and mild,
With fleecy clouds and skies of blue,
She came, this wayward child.

Her life was short. The starry flowers
Whose cups were filled with dew,
Whose beauty fed the humming bee
And graced the meadow through,
Have drooped at last their wearied heads
In grief upon their breast,
For summer's burial time is near -
The flowers have gone to rest

The birds, who cheered those sunny days
Have flown to southern bowers,
All this in nature's sad array
Brings back September hours.
The colored leaf that flutters down
Along the pebbly way,
Speaks in a language all its own
The end of summer's day.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.