FOR ANN

My tantalized spir
Here blandly re
Forgetting, or nev
Regretting its r
Its old agitations
Of myrtles and

For now, while so
Lying, it fancies
A holier odor
About it, of pan
A rosemary odor,
Commingled wi
With rue and the
Puritan pansies

And so it lies hap
Bathing in man
A dream of the tr
And the beauty
Drowned in a bat
Of the tresses d

She tenderly kiss
She fondly care
And then I fell g
To sleep on her
Deeply to sleep
From the heav

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When the light w She covered me And she prayed t To keep me fro

BRIDAL

ΤΟ

To the queen of the angels
To shield me from harm.

And I lie so composedly,
Now, in my bed,
(Knowing her love)

That you fancy me dead-
And I rest so contentedly,
Now in my bed,

(With her love at my breast)
That you fancy me dead-
That you shudder to look at me,
Thinking me dead:

But my heart it is brighter
Than all of the many
Stars in the sky,

For it sparkles with AnnieIt glows with the light

Of the love of my AnnieWith the thought of the light Of the eyes of my Annie.

BRIDAL

THE ring is on my
And the wreath
Satins and jewels
Are all at my com
And I am happy

And my lord he lo

But, when first
I felt my bosom s
For the words ran
And the voice see
In the battle dow
And who is hap

But he spoke to r

And he kissed
While a reverie ca
And to the church
And I sighed to h
Thinking him dea
"Oh, I am happ

And thus the wo
And this the pl
And, though my
And, though my
Behold the golde
That proves me