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Friendship's Offering and Winter's Wreath
Friendship's Offering and Winter's Wreath Author:John Ruskin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: doing his work like a man and a soldier. The change did come over him, from that moment. He served many campaigns with honor, and returned to his family, holding... more » some rank as an officer. For Hortense, we repeat, kind English reader, that she yet lives in the brave country in which we now write ; and more, that she wears (whenever she likes) a military decoration, presented to her soon after the facts of her lofty and yet tender heroism had become known to her Imperial Sovereign. Boutogne-Sur-Jfer, July, 1831. FOR MUSIC. Come again! Come again ! Sunshine cometh after rain. As a lamp fed newly burneth, Pleasure who doth fly returneth, Scattering every cloud of pain ; As, the year which dies in showers, Riseth in a world of flowers, Called by many a vernal strain; Come thou for whom tears were falling, And a thousand tongues are calling, — Come again ! O, come again ! Like the sunshine after rain. Baury Cornwall. The Nevv'y 7 LENOX AND J FOUNDATIONS. ,,i,i in to the piv ..--..! appeared worse than idu THE POET'S DREAM. Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Milton' It was the minstrel's merry month of June; Silent and sultry glowed the hreezeless noon ; Along the flowers the bee went murmuring ; Life in its myriad forms was on the wing, . Broke through the green leaves with the quivering beam, Sung from the grove, and sparkled on the stream : When—where yon beach-tree broke the summer ray—- Wrapt in rich dreams of light — young Milton lay. For him the earth beneath, the heaven above, Teemed with the earliest spring of joyous youth ; The verses here printed under the above title form the first part of Mr. Bulwer's poem of " Milton," published while the accompanying plate was in the hands of the en...« less