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ENGLISH MELODIES.

The songs marked * are published by ROBERT COCKS, 6. New Burlington Street. The remaining Songs are (with very few exceptions) the copyright of ADDISON and HODSON, London, and of HIME and ADDISON, Manchester; to whom application may be made.

ENGLISH MELODIES.

BY

CHARLES SWAIN,

AUTHOR OF "THE MIND," "DRAMATIC CHAPTERS,"

AND OTHER POEMS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

23475,50 HARVARD COLLEGE

MAR 25 1920
LIBRARY

Miss Lotta

LONDON: SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW, New-street-Square.

IN a world of things ideal
Liv'd a maiden long ago;
Nothing pleased but the unreal
All her idols were of snow:
Moving thus in golden vision,
Unto other eyes unknown,
Dwelt she in a world elysian-
In a kingdom of her own.

In her soul for ever flowing,
Like a stream of inner life,
Coming without thought, and going,
There were pictures ever rife!
Paintings of imagination,

In which Earth could take no part;

All the soaring aspiration

Of a spiritual heart.

From the empty dark creating

Glories, hid from common sight; Scenes of beauty that seem'd waiting

Angel-footsteps to alight:

Views which, while her soul was seeing,
Vanish'd without form or track;

And the mind that shap'd their being
Never more could call them back.

Lost she then her life in dreaming
Of a sphere which had no birth?
Are they wiser who are deeming

All but Mammon little worth?
Is it nothing to inherit

Glimpses of that world on high; Depths of that diviner spirit

Which we're told shall never die?

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