What I can’t see I never will believe in!


A MEDLEY.

I only know she came and went,[Lowell.
Like troutlets in a pool;[Hood.
She was a phantom of delight,[Wordsworth.
And I was like a fool.[Eastman.
One kiss, dear maid, I said, and sighed,[Coleridge.
Out of those lips unshorn![Longfellow.
She shook her ringlets round her head,[Stoddard.
And laughed in merry scorn.[Tennyson.
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,[Tennyson.
You hear them, Oh, my heart,[Alice Cary.
’Tis twelve at night by the castle clock—[Coleridge.
Beloved, we must part.[Alice Cary.
Come back, come back, she cried in grief,[Campbell.
My eyes are dim with tears;[B. Taylor.
How shall I live through all the days,[Mrs. Osgood.
All through a hundred years?[J. J. Perry.
’Twas in the prime of summer time,[Hood.
She blessed me with her hand;[Hoyt.
We strayed together deeply blest,[Mrs. Edwards.
Into the dreaming land.[Cornwall.
The laughing bridal roses blew,[Patmore.
To deck her dark brown hair,[B. Taylor.
No maiden may with her compare,[Brailsford.
Most beautiful, most rare![Read.
I clasped it on her sweet cold hand,[Browning.
The precious golden link;[Smith.
I calmed her fears, and she was calm—[Coleridge.
Drink, pretty creature, drink![Wordsworth.
And so I won my Genevieve,[Coleridge.
And walked in Paradise;[Hervey.
The fairest thing that ever grew[Wordsworth.
Atween me and the skies![Tennyson.

ANOTHER MEDLEY.

(WHO ARE THE AUTHORS?)

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

In every clime, from Lapland to Japan;

To fix one spark of beauty’s heavenly ray,