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TWO chambers hath the heart;
Indwelling
Are Joy and Grief apart.
If Joy awake in one,
Then slumbers
Grief silently alone.
O Joy, care take,
Speak gently,
That Grief may not awake.
II.THE STARS.SHINING unmoved forever
The stars in heaven above;
Their light is emblematic
Of true and faithful love.
They speak a language all their own,
So pure, and yet so sweet,
It puzzles e'en philologists
Who in wise council meet.
But long ago their lore I learned;
And, were they quenched above,
One star would still be left to me, -
The star of faithful love.
III.THE WILD-FLOWER.IN the woods I strayed;
What brought me there
I did not know,
Nor did I care.
In the shade I spied,
Of heavenly hue,
A little flower,
Like eyes of blue.
I stooped to pluck.
It softly said:
"Soon shall I lie
Among the dead!"
I took it up
With tender care,
And bore it home
To plant it there.
It groweth now
Beside my door,
The sweetest flower
Earth ever bore.
IV.THE FISHER-MAID.THOU beautiful fisher-maiden,
Row swift thy boat to land;
Come here and sit beside me,
We 'll whisper, hand in hand.
Thy little head upon my breast,
No need of fear with me;
Art thou not ever fearless
Upon the boisterous sea?
My breast is like the heaving sea,
With storms and ebb and flow,
And many a priceless pearl
Sleeps in its depths below.
A. L. H.
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