Far from the Stone Streets Author:Henry Chadwick 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: LILY OF THE VALLEY 0 how fast you grow, Dainty little thing! Fairy wands all in a row, In the tender Spring. 1 look every day In your leaves' cool ... more »cells, Hoping you have heard Spring say, " Now bring out your bells! " Every little heart, Robed in moonbeam white, Slowly bursts its globe apart And opens to the light. Then, quite wide awake, Each astonished bell Gives itself a tiny shake — " My! how sweet I smell! " A MAY SHOWER It caught the breath of flowers away And dashed it in my face, And all the resin buds of May Leaped up with jocund hearts that day; The streams whipped foam in shallow pools, Where all the air the rain-splash cools, And apple blossoms peeped to see What spattered them so merrily — It was the rain of May. The birds set up a warbling shout Above the rushing fall; Gold dandelions round about To wash their faces had come out, And colors streaked the rocks, between Wet branches weaving mists of green. But suddenly there came to me The old salt odor of the sea, Blown through the rain of May. UVULARIA Frail woodland beauty! thou dost spring to meet The wandering hamadryad's seeking eye, Breathing thy secret of nativity. 'T is thus she reads her poems, in the leaves Of flowers finding all philosophy— , Sweet books, where perfect law Love's message weaves In the pure native tongue the heart doth greet. How much they hold, Eternity reveals — Stars are but letters on the lustrous page — Yet this true speech hath such a wondrous gauge, One airy sentence, like this blossom here, Touches the Author's plan. Age after age, Groping for words that shall life's deeps make clear, Oft in despair by some frail flower kneels. ULTIMA THULE Far off, where the misty he...« less