Golden gates of Fifty Years, Then a quiet walk again : Then a wicket in the wall; Then one, stepping on alone, Then two at the Heart of All! WILLIAM C. GANNETT. THE OLD MAN DREAMS. FOR one hour of youthful joy! Give back my twentieth spring! I'd rather laugh, a bright-haired boy, Than reign, a gray-beard king. Off with the spoils of wrinkled age! One moment let my life-blood stream THE OLD MAN DREAMS. My listening angel heard the prayer, "If I but touch thy silvered hair "But is there nothing in thy track While the swift seasons hurry back "Ah, truest soul of womankind! The angel took a sapphire pen "And is there nothing yet unsaid, "Why, yes, for memory would recall My fond paternal joys; I could not bear to leave them all I'll take-my-girl — and — boys." 179 The smiling angel dropped his pen, The man would be a boy again, And so I laughed, my laughter woke And wrote my dream, when morning broke, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE DAISY FOLLOWS SOFT THE SUN. HE daisy follows soft the sun, Sits shyly at his feet. walk is done, He, waking, finds the flower near. "Because, sir, love is sweet!" We are the flower, Thou the sun! We nearer steal to Thee, Enamoured of the parting west, The peace, the flight, the amethyst, EMILY DICKINSON. All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee And at night the septette of Beethoven And how could you dream of meeting? And on her lover's arm she leant A picture-frame for you to fill PAGE 173 42 38 31 35 2 37 8 153 92 123 91 Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea 44 Be happy now with him, and love him who loves thee By a clear well, within a little field Dimpled and flushed and dewy pink he lies First time he kissed me, he but only kissed God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Here's the garden she walked across 10 84 51 34 143 84 107 75 104 57 32 He who loves truly, grows in force and might How sweet it were, if without feeble fright I am not a prosperous man I count my times by times that I meet thee If by any device or knowledge If I had an eagle's wings If I had known in the morning |