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329 A FACTOBY VIOLET.
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Then come , oh ! thou beautiful spring ! And breathe on our languishing bowers ;
On the wandering gale thy sweet odours fling ; Come with music and sunlight and flowers . "
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" NIGHT AND REVERIE . " _"In lendid star-wrought vestmentslike some stately orient queen ,
sp , The summer night conies gliding through the azure depths serene . Ba train attendedto the waiting earth she comes
y gorgeous , , Royal presents with her bearing through the twilight ' s thickening glooms . "Welcome rest to man a-wearysweet oblivion of his cares
, , Fairy dreams in lieu of labour—such the precious gifts she bears—Dewy sleep for _Nature ' s children ; every bird and sun-smit flower
Hail the music of her coming feet in wood and garden bower . O ! joyous is the morning-time , and dear the noon-day cairn ,
And smiling eve ' s rich purple glow , and sweet her breath of balm ; But thouNighthast richer -gloriesand thou bring ' st to me a boon
, , , Better loved than Morning ' s freshness , or the radiant hush of Noon , Mother thou of visions golden , not of slumber , but of thought ,
Which at thy coming visit me , like Heaven ' s best gifts , unsought . At thy bidding earth-cares vanishfancy spreads her fearless wings
, With the infinite around her holds delicious communings . Thought outflows at thy approaching as a streamlet full and free ,
Sheening like a crystal river , sparkling like a sunlit sea ; As a buoyant bark my spirit floats along its rapid tide
Through the all-encircling ether , through the cloudland spreading wide , _„ Through Immensity ' s bright regions onward still the current runs ,
Till it finds a sea of sapphire islanded with stars and suns . O the brightnesses transcendent ! O the bursts of sphere-born song !
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329 A Factoby Violet.
329 A _FACTOBY VIOLET .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/41/
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