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I. Lovely Brookland! Peaceful Village,
" Do you not remember , Amy , Those old times ? why I can now
Kecollect each word you then said To medarling . Do you know
, That I loved you then , dear Amy , That IVe loved you all your life ,
That I now , will ever love you ? Amy , Amy , be my wife . "
" Harry Leigh , I do not love you , " Amy calmly , kindly said ,
" And if we should live together ,. 'Twould be sadly , I ' m afraid ;
In my fancy something whispers—Harry do not think me
proud—That I shall not pass my life-time Long among this working crowd .
" Yet I thank you very kindly For your goodness towards me ;
And I will forget you never—OI hope you'll happy be !"
, Thus they parted—Harry sadly , For his day-dream was dispelled ;
Amy feeling'for him sorry , For she knew what hopes she'd quilled .
And what made this little Amy Talk in such a high-flown strain ?
Had the dreams dreamed in the forest Turned the pretty maiden ' s brain ?
Had she heard from elves or fairies , Had the birds whispered in song ,
That she'd leave her native village , For a larger world ere long ?
No . A stranger came to Brookland , Camehe saidfor change of air ;
, , He was young—was scarcely twenty ; And he met with Amy there
In the woodlands . There he asked her ( Not at first , for she was shy ,
But when time had made them friendly , ) If to love him she would try .
'Twas the old , old , well-known story ! Amy loved him—loved him more
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/52/