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Show WHAT MY LOVER SAID. By the mora-st chance in the twilight gloom In the orchard path he met nie In the tall wet grass, with its faint perfume. And 1 tried to pass, but lie. ma'ie no room; Oh, 1 tried, but he would not let me. So I stood and blushed till the grass grew red, W'itU my face bent down alove it, While he took in hand, sis Us whispering Mid flow tha clover lifted its sweet pink uead, To listen to all that tnv lover said! Oil, the clover in bloom! I love it In the high wet grass weut the path to hide, And tlio low wet leaves hung ever, Put I could not pass on either side, IW I found royseif, when 1 vainly tried, In the arms of my steadfast lover. And he held me there and he raised my head. While he closed the path before me; And he li oked down into my eres and aid-How aid-How the leaves bent down from the boughs o'er-Itead o'er-Itead To listen to what my lover said! Oh, the leaves banging lowly o'er me! am sure that lie knew when ho held me I jst, That I must be all unwilling; ror 1 tried to go, and I wnuldbiiva passed. As the niaht had come with its dews at lust. And the sky with it stars was filling. But he clasped me close, when 1 would have fled, And he mado mo hear his tory. And his soul came out from iiis dps and said--How the stars crept out when the white moon lied To listen to all that my lover saH! Oh, the moon and tlo s'sisiu glory! I know that the urns aiul the leaves will not tell, And I "nt sure tiint the wind, r -clous over, Will carry his secret s.:fely and well That no being shjU ever discover One word of the mny that rapfd'y ft li From the :i'er lips of my lover. And the. nitiai and the star that lx k d over Snail ner reveal what a f ury-like spell They wove mind about us tnat night in tho dell, , I i he path through the d w-ladn clover: Nor the, ,iipers that made my heart to swell, As. iky-y fell from the lips of my lover. llumr Ore-'ne. |