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Themes and Variations
A SKETCH.
A little house, o’erhung with flowers,
Where first the creamy primrose breaks,
Where roses tell the summer hours
With bursting buds and falling flakes.
Where first the creamy primrose breaks,
Where roses tell the summer hours
With bursting buds and falling flakes.
A little garden, blossom-starred,
With jewelled fruit and honeyed bell,
With holly for its prickly guard,
And bee for humming sentinel.
With jewelled fruit and honeyed bell,
With holly for its prickly guard,
And bee for humming sentinel.
A little stream that sings and frets,
And hurries onward to the main,
Who drinks of it, though worlds divide,
Will surely come and drink again.
And hurries onward to the main,
Who drinks of it, though worlds divide,
Will surely come and drink again.