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Title: Verses
Author: Susan Coolidge
Release Date: October, 2003 [Etext #4560] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 11, 2002]
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Language: English
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VERSES.
BY
SUSAN COOLIDGE.
TO J. H. AND E. W. H.
Nourished by peaceful suns and gracious dew, Your sweet youth budded and your sweet lives grew, And all the world seemed rose-beset for you.
The rose of beauty was your mutual dower, The stainless rose of love, an early flower, The stately blooms of ease and wealth and power.
And treading thus on pathways flower-bestrewn, It well might be, that, cold and careless grown, You both had lived for your own joys alone.
But, holding all these fair things as in trust. Gently you walked, still scattering on the dust Of harder roads, which others tread, and must,--
Your heritage of brightness, not a ray Of noontide sought you out, but straight away You caught and halved it with some darker day:
