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A MORNING DREAM.

'Tis noontide rest, and the sun is sleeping, - Prone on the breast of the cool green floss, Scarcely a wavelet from slumber leaping, ' Scarcely a ripple stealißg across. " • ' . One arm o'er mine eyelids all careless flinging, ', ; To'shut out that only half-waking beam, I lie, and there wafteth a far, soft singing, That ehimeth right well with my morning dream. „ , For I dream of a stile at the fall of gloaming, And kine in the meadow waiting, too A milking-pail oTer the hay-field coming— ' ' A glimmer of gold, and a gleam of blue.' ■ - It ehimeth so well with my dream, thai., singing, - ■ - i I glanoe.'neath my sheltering arHVabof*— 'Tis she! /and, about* lie?, fair shoulders , ~ clinging, . _. A rosy boy, bright at the Infant Lore. he has lqwered the xshild from her gleam|og *•> '■■ shoulder, ; ' ~* -■,■"'.'l\,--*f* ■ Where yon hoifer.waits in the rustlipg reeds, . ■ And the shrinking boy,'growing erer' bolder,'.'. With his handful of blossoms'the creature-' ieeds. ■ :'E A fair little'picture ! They'weid on slowly, '■ Away from ray neok, up the burnis's marge,: And on and on thrdugh tuft'grass knolly, ' Trampeth tbe heifer with foot-print large. Along the green bank, through the briar-roses, She wanders on sti". with tbe shouting child— And now yonder cluster of alders closes,. [... And- steals her away, a sweet dream beguiled. .. - , > kibso. v. ac.

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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4058, 31 December 1881, Page 1

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A MORNING DREAM. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4058, 31 December 1881, Page 1

A MORNING DREAM. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4058, 31 December 1881, Page 1

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