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by Unknown

May-day skies are all aglow,

And the waves are laughing so!

For the wedding

Hannah leaves her window and her shoes.

May is passing:

Mid the apple-boughs a pigeon coos.

Hannah shudders,

For the mild south-wester mischief brews.

Round the rocks of Marblehead,

Outward bound, a schooner sped: