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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SONG OF THREE SINGERS. I Wave and wind and willow tree Speak a speech that no man knoweth ; Tree that sigheth, wind that bloweth, Wave that floweth to the sea : Wave and wind and willow tree. Peerless perfect poets ye, Singing songs all songs excelling, Fine as crystal music dwelling In a welling fountain free : Peerless perfect poets three ! Wave and wind and willow tree Know not aught of poets' rhyming, Yet they make a silver chiming Sunward climbing minstrelsy, Soother than all songs that be. Blows the wind it knows not why, Flows the wave it knows not whither, And the willow swayeth hither Swayeth thither witlessly, Nothing knowing save to sigh. LOVE'S ASTROLOGY. I Know not if they erred Who thought to see The tale of all the times to be, Star character'd; I know not, neither care, If fools or knaves they were. But this I know : last night On me there shone Two stars that made all stars look wan And shamed quite, Wherefrom the soul of me Divined her destiny. THREE FLOWERS. I Made a little song about the rose And sang it for the rose to hear, Nor ever marked until the music's close A lily that was listening near. The red red rose flushed redder with delight, And like a queen her head she raised. The white white lily blanched a paler white, For anger that she was not praised. Turning I left the rose unto her pride, The lily to her enviousness, And soon upon the grassy ground espied A daisy all companionless. Doubtless no flattered flower is this, I deemed ; And not so graciously it grew As rose or lily : but methought it seemed More thankful for the sun and dew. Dear love, my sweet small flower that grew'st among The grass, from all the flowers apart, Forgive me that I gave the rose m...
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