Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley
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Of what a book has charmed my sighing soul.
I found it here. Perchance she read it first. How that one thought which doth fill up the mind, Will color outward objects, circumstance, And accident, with tincture of itself. _He goes--then Odora and he re-enter the garden._ LOVER SPEAKS.--I here have found, Odora, love, this book, Which tells a strange, sweet tale of happy love, How two young beings found a heaven on earth, Cans't tell me, whence it came, if fact or dream? ODORA SPEAKS.--It is a happy story. In my father's room Of precious volumes late I fell on this; And read it in this garden; sweet romance, It brought the love-beats to my heart, drops to mine eyes. SCENE IV.--ODORA AND LOVER IN A FIELD UNDER A PERFECT RAINBOW. (LOVER SPEAKS.) Above this field that shines an Eden, lo! That wondrous arch of many married hues: A gorgeous belt, round Nature's lovely waist! Sure, earth now seems no place of graves. A wide Gay, blooming Paradise! With moistened face, She smiles, like God, upon this joyous world. A new, wild burst of various harmony, Salutes that Bow of charm--that orb of Glory. |
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