MORNING SONG.

Otago Witness, Issue 2677, 5 July 1905, Page 70

MORNING SON G.

From slumber a.waken, O Beatrice, rise , The pearl-dews are shaken, And blue are the skies: From sweetbriar growing. Where meads hillward lie, The early winds blowing, Full-scented, pass by: The jubilant thrushes Full-heartedly sing ; Where eastern rose flushes The lark's on the wing. From slumber awaken, O Beatrice, rise ; The dream-god hath taken Thy heart and thine eyes; The dream-god lialh lulled, 'Mid blossoms to stray — The blooms I have culled theft Are scented as tKey : Rosebuds from the croft, Iov», The dew on their tips — Thy cheeks are as soft, love, As sweet are thy lipg. The waters by seclge-ways, 'Mid cuckoo-biuls, flow, The winds take the hedge-ways, " Where violets blow. From slumber awaken, O Beatrice, rise ; And, hark! where, forsaken, A quail lonely cries! The sun o'er the birches Is rising apace, But vainly he searches^ O maid, for thy face; Ec searches, then passes And kisses a rose; The dews from the grasses Flash suns as he goes : 3Tea, sim-kissed sweet rosea May blush on the tree, There's not one uncloses Its treasures to me, Not one like the sleeper, Who loses morn's beam, For beauty still deeper— The beauty of dream 1 From slumber awaken, 0 Beatrice, rise ; Or must I, forsaken, With tears and with sighs — "Who's sighing? Who weeping, With morning so clear? "Who squanders in sleeping The sweet o' the year? "Kay; cornflowers and poppies 1 show to my love! I come from the coppice, From cornfields I move: °I come from the ?eclge-ways, By niurrmmng stream, Whilst thou by the hedge-way* Didst -waadeiing dream 1 "From slumber awaken ! The day's in the skiea. The dream-god hath shaken His dews in thine eyes : ""When petals are falling; Loves meet, soon or late — For, hark! hew they're calling; The quail and his mate!'' Away to the copse, love — Day's drea-rn-gates are wide, — > Ere flowers on the slopes, love, Look sunward, dry-eyed: From slumber thou wakest; O Beatrice, love, Enchantment thou rnakest, And we in it move! — JOJUWKSB C. ASBSBSSS, Cfcristchun.h, June, 1005.

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