Songs Ysame

By Albion Fellows Bacon and Annie F. Johnston

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 12, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066205737

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Albion Fellows Bacon, Annie F. Johnston

Songs Ysame

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066205737

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PART I.

SONGS YSAME

The Lighting of the Candles.

At Early Candle-Lighting.

Bob White.

Grandfather.

The Old Church.

An Old-Time Pedagogue.

Her Title-Deeds.

INTERLUDES.

Voices of the Old, Old Days.

Silent Keys.

PART II.

Retrospection.

Echoes From Erin.

An Alpine Valley.

Through an Amber Pane.

At a Tenement Window.

A Song.

Eclipse.

In the Dark.

Felipa, Wife of Columbus.

'Twixt Creek and Bay.

When Youth is Gone.

The Fickle Heart.

Banditti.

The Silent Brotherhood.

Spendthrift.

Lost.

The Robber.

My Carol.

Carol.

In This Cradle Life of Ours.

Here and There.

The Milky Way.

INTERLUDE.

Interlude.

PART III.

Oh, Dreary Day!

May-Time.

Spring's Cophetua.

Winter Beauty.

October.

At Twilight.

The Prophet.

The Potter's Field.

Left Out.

Our Father.

A Madrigal.

The Time o' Day.

Trailing Arbutus.

A Mood.

The Legend of the Pansies.

The Tower of Babel.

The Old Bell.

The Sea.

Married.

Motherhood.

Sufficiency.

Ophelia.

Requiem.

Elizabeth.

Elinor.

On a Fly-Leaf of Flute and Violin.

Inspiration.

On a Fly-Leaf of Irving.

On a Fly-Leaf of Riley's Afterwhiles .

Chiaro-Oscuro.

When She Came Home.

A Resolve.

Stranded.

At Last.

PART I.

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The Lighting of the Candles.

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WHENCE came the ember

That touched our young souls' candles first with light;

In shadowy years, too distant to remember,

Where childhood merges backward into night?

I know not, but the halo of those tapers

Has ever since around all nature shone;

And we have looked at life through golden vapors

Because of that one ember touch alone.

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At Early Candle-Lighting.

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THOSE, who have heard the whispered breath

Of Nature's secret Shibboleth,

And learned the pass-word to unroll

The veil that hides her inmost soul,

May follow; but this by-path leads

Through mullein stalks and jimson-weeds.

And he who scorning treads them down

Would deem but poor and common-place

Those whom he'll meet in homespun gown.

But they who lovingly retrace

Their steps to scenes I dream about,

Will find the latch-string hanging out.

With them I claim companionship,

And for them burn my tallow-dip,

At early candle-lighting.

To these low hills, around which cling

My fondest thoughts, I would not bring

An alien eye long used to sights

Among the snow-crowned Alpine heights.

An eagle does not bend its wing

To low-built nests where robins sing.

Between the fence's zigzag rails,

The stranger sees the road that trails

Its winding way into the dark,

Fern-scented woods. He does not mark

The old log cabin at the end

As I, or hail it as a friend,

Or catch, when daylight's last rays wane,

The glimmer through its narrow pane

Of early candle-lighting.

As anglers sit and half in dream

Dip lazy