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    Fugitive Poetry
    Fugitive Poetry
    Fugitive Poetry
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    Fugitive Poetry

    By Nathaniel Parker Willis

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Fugitive Poetry - Nathaniel Parker Willis

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      Title: Fugitive Poetry

      Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis

      Release Date: April 26, 2010 [EBook #32146]

      Language: English

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      FUGITIVE POETRY.

      FUGITIVE POETRY:

      BY N.P. WILLIS.

      If, however, I can, by lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sorrow; if I can, now and then, penetrate the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow beings and himself, surely, surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain.

      Washington Irving.

      BOSTON:

      PUBLISHED BY PEIRCE AND WILLIAMS.

      1829.

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      "Fugitive Poetry: By N.P. Willis.

      "'If, however, I can, by lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heart of one moment of sorrow; if I can, now and then, penetrate the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow beings, and himself, surely, surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain.' Washington Irving."

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      MY BEST AND MOST VALUED FRIEND,

      THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

      BY THE AUTHOR.

      CONTENTS.

      FUGITIVE POETRY.

      THE SHUNAMITE.[A]

      It was a sultry day of summer time.

      The sun pour'd down upon the ripen'd grain

      With quivering heat, and the suspended leaves

      Hung motionless. The cattle on the hills

      Stood still, and the divided flock were all

      Laying their nostrils to the cooling roots,

      And the sky look'd like silver, and it seem'd

      As if the air had fainted, and the pulse

      Of nature had run down, and ceas'd to beat.

      'Haste thee, my child!' the Syrian mother said,

      'Thy father is athirst'—and from the depths

      Of the cool well under the leaning tree,

      She drew refreshing water, and with thoughts

      Of God's sweet goodness stirring at her heart,

      She bless'd her beautiful boy, and to his way

      Committed him. And he went lightly on,

      With his soft hands press'd closely to the cool

      Stone vessel, and his little naked feet

      Lifted with watchful care, and o'er the hills,

      And thro' the light green hollows, where the lambs

      Go for the tender grass, he kept his way,

      Wiling its distance with his simple thoughts,

      Till, in the wilderness of sheaves, with brows

      Throbbing with heat, he set his burden down.

      Childhood is restless ever, and the boy

      Stay'd not within

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