The First Walpurgis-Night
A
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ET smiles the May
The forest
A
ID
ET smiles the May
The forest
At the time when the stars are grey, And the gold of the molten
Fades, and the twilight is thinned,
And the sun leaps up, and the wind,
A light rose, not of the day, A stronger light than of noon
The first rain reminds
Of the rising summer dust
The rain doesn't remember the rain of yesteryear
A year is a trained beast with no memories
Outside the snowstorm spins, and
The world beneath a pall
Snowed under are the paper-girl,
The papers and the stall
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy
Seven years tho' wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day
O, could I lose all father now
For why Will man lamen...
The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.
Here lies, to each her parents' ruth,
Mary, the daughter of their youth;
Yet all heaven's gifts being heaven's due,
It makes the father less to rue
The first time that the sun rose on thine
To love me,
I looked forward to the
To slacken all those bonds which seemed too
Away with your fictions of flimsy romance;
Those tissues of falsehood which folly has wove
Give me the mild beam of the soul-breathing glance,
Or the rapture which dwells on the first kiss of love
De cloud is hide de moon, but dere's plain- tee light above,
Steady Johnnie, steady—kip your head down low,
Move de paddle leetle quicker, an' de ole canoe we'll shove T'roo de water nice an' quiet For de place we're goin' try it Is beyo...
I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one;
Last night I held my arms to
And you held yours to
And started out to march to
As any soldier fine