...land, Gone from the storms let loose on every hill, Lured by the sweet persuasion of a hand Which loads thee somewhere in the distance still. Where'er thou...heart, I hear The messages of purer life, and know The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, The darkness hides the way that I should go. Canst thou...

...not fade ; Earth gave not all the glory of thine eye ; Death may not keep what Death has never made. It was not thine, that forehead strange and cold,...heart, I hear The messages of purer life, and know The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, The darkness hides the way that I should go. Canst thou...

...the snow ; Thy heart would throb beneath that passive fold, Thy hands for me that stony clasp forego. Lured by the sweet persuasion of a hand Which leads...heart, I hear The messages of purer life, and know The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, The darkness hides the way that I should go. Canst thou...

...thee somewhere in the distance still. Where'er thou art, I know thon wearest yet The same bewildeiing beauty, sanctified By calmer joy, and touched with...thee the living love of old, And seek thy place in Katiire, as a child Whose hand is parted from his playmate's hold, Wanders and cries along a lonesome...

...thy breast ; Though by the feet of generations trod, The head-stone crumble from thy place of rest. I keep for thee the living love of old, And seek thy...in nature as a child Whose hand is parted from his playmates' hold, Wanders and cries along some dreary wild. When in the watches of my heart I hear The...

...distance still. Where'er thou art, I know thou wcarest yet The same bewildering beauty, sanctified I keep for thee the living love of old, And seek thy...heart, I hear The messages of purer life, and know The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, The darkness hides the way that I should go. Canst thou...

...of a hand Which leads thee somewhere in the distance still. Where'er thou nrt, I know thou wcarest yet The same bewildering beauty, sanctified By calmer...heart, I hear The messages of purer life, and know The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, The darkness hides the way that I should go. Canst thou...

...distance still. Where'er thou art, I know thou wearest yet The same bewildering beauty, sanctified 1 keep for thee the living love of old, And seek thy...heart, I hear The messages of purer life, and know The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, The darkness hides the way that I should go. Canst thou...

...fade ; Earth gave not all the glory of thine eye, — Death may not keep what Death has never made. It was not thine, that forehead strange and cold,...heart, I hear The messages of purer life, and know The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, The darkness hides the way that I should go. Canst thou...

...early sorrow of the poet. A stanza of it will, perhaps, indicate the quality to which we refer : " I keep for thee the living love of old, And seek thy...playmate's hold, Wanders and cries along a lonesome wild." What we like best in this collection of the poetical works of our dead singer is not " The Poet's Journal,"...