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Show , TWO MOODS. I Between the budding and the falling leaf Stretch happy skies; With colors and sweet cries Of nintine bints In nplands an! in glades The world is rife. Then on a indden all the music dies, . The color fades. How fujrit and brief 1 mortal life Between the buddJnjand the falling leaf! ! Oh short breathed music, dying on the tongue ' Ere half the mystic canticle be sun?! i O harp of l:f,V apeedi'y unstrung'. ! Who, if "twere his to choose, would know again The bitter sweetness of the lost refrain. Its rapture, and it 3 pain? II. Though I ba shut in darkness, and become Insentient dust blown idly hera and thtre, 1 ho d ob'ivijn a scant pr.ee to pay For having once had held uainet mr lip Lift's brimming cup of hydromel and me For having once known woman's holy love And a child kiss, and tor a little space Peea boon companion to the Dajr and Night, . Fed on the ( dor of the summer dawn, And folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, An.i serve the potter as he turns hi wheel, 1 t::ank Thee for the gracious pift of tears! Tkomat Bai.ey Aldrich, in Harper Magazine. . |