Show r THE WORLD MADE NEW When Spring with maiden tenderness Steals shyly hither to caress To gladden with her pretty mirth Our happy flowrbedizened earth My dear my dear what pageant days Will greet us in the country ways When Eden joys come back again When hawthorns whiten down the lane The little wistful moon my friend Will peep above the gableend And see the hillside orchard white With blossom all the fervent night The cottage panes will glow at dusk The darkness gather sweet with musk And weary kine with lagging feet Pass lowing down the village street And then at daybreak hark oh hush Beneath the stars the early thrush Piping while heaven glimmers gray His morning carol clear and gay He sang the selfsame song you know In Paradise long years ago And keeps estranged from all regret His warm brave heart unvanquished yet 1 For him for us the world is new When daisied meadows gleam with dew i Ah not to us the time seems late i Who come but now to love and mate Content to deem It is most wise i To watch life out with tranquil eyes To kiss warm lips and win thereby I A little comfprt ere we die Pall Mall Gazette I |