Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
Author
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1885
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ROMANCE.
I.
I HAVE placed a golden Ring upon the hand Of the blithest little Lady in the land!
When the early roses Scent the sunny air, She shall gather white ones To tremble in her hair!
Hasten, happy roses, Come to me by May— In your folded petals Lies my wedding-day.
II.
The chestnuts shine through the cloven rind, And the woodland leaves are red, my dear; The scarlet fuchsias burn in the wind— Funeral plumes for the Year!
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The Year which has brought me so much woe That if it were not for you, my dear, I could wish the fuchsias' fire might glow For me as well as the Year.
III.
OUT from the depths of my heart Had arisen this single cry, Let me behold my belovéd, Let me behold her, and die.
At last, like a sinful soul At the portals of Heaven I lie, Never to walk with the blest, Ah, never!... only to die.
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