Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 359
e that face renews my filial grief.Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief,---Shall steep me in Elysian revery,A momentary dream that thou art she. 1, As though the request were her o^vn. 2. The Elysian Fields were the blessed lands of beauty and joy towhich the Greeks hoped to go at their death.… … MY MOTHER Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss;Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss—Ah, that maternal smile! it answers—Yes.I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day;I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away; My jNIothers Picture 337 And, turning from my nursery window, drewA long,…
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