One moment alone in the garden,
Under the August skies;
The moon had gone but the stars shone on,
Shone like your beautiful eyes.
Away from the glitter and gaslight,
Alone in the garden there,
While …
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I knew that a baby was hid in that house,
Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry;
But the husband was tip-toeing ’round like a mouse,
And the good wife was …
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If I could clasp my little babe
Upon my breast to-night,
I would not mind the blowing wind
That shrieketh in affright.
Oh, my lost babe! my little babe,
My babe with dreamful eyes;
Thy bed …
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In the midnight of darkness and terror,
When I would grope nearer to God,
With my back to a record of error
And the highway of sin I have trod,
There comes to me …
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Walking to-day on the Common,
I heard a stranger say
To a friend who was standing near him,
‘Do you know I am going away? ‘
I had never seen their faces,
May never see …
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If one poor burdened toiler o’er life’s road,
Who meets us by the way,
Goes on less conscious of his galling load,
Then life, indeed, does pay.
If we can show the troubled heart …
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Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold.
Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and selfishness;
In those serene, Arcadian days of old
Men gave no thought to princely homes and dress.
The …
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