Evaline, madelon, and other poems.

  • Chandler, Louis A.
Date:
1861
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Evaline, madelon, and other poems. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Time was, a fair and lovely face Like sunshine stealing 'mid the gloom. Had shed a soft and tender grace About each dismal room : As flowers with their sweet hues and fragrant breathy Strewn o'er the bier, lend loveliness to Death. But o'er her fell the blighting power, So meekly fading day by day, And tranquilly as twilight hour She passed from earth away; Now in the qnaint old church she took her rest, A weary weight of marble on her breast. It was a mournful sight to see The father and the little lad, So gloomy, proud, and stately he; The child so mild and sad, So strong in love, and yet so sorely weak. So surely fading, yet so sweetly meek.