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IOLETS 
 
 
 REETING 
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 Copyright 188S. 
 
 Hard & Parsons, 
 
 New York. 
 
ISLETS, daintily robed in blue, 
 (pipped witb a jewel of the dew, 
 
 W if b face as t^e aentie momma fair, 
 
 Olnd breat^ of fraarance wondrous rare, 
 
 Q)o beep sweet tryst wit b me to-oay. 
 nave stolen from tbeir noob away. 
 
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 0WN in a mossy covered dell, 
 @weet and soy, my violets dwell, 
 
 But tlie blue-bird l^nows +l?eir coy retreat 
 @nd comes witb earliest sona to greet; 
 
 @nd i\)e fervor of tr;e matin lay 
 ^brills \)\s music all tbe day. 
 
HB sunbeams strayina one by one, 
 
 Qre yet toe dav s worr^ is begun, 
 softly part the mossy screen 
 
 ucl? drapes ir>e downy bed of aneen, 
 
 Wnb 
 
 isses warm each dreamer wabes 
 
 nd memory cj lad tl^eir journey mab 
 
 es, 
 
UT my violets bave a areaten bli 
 
 ss 
 
 (§)ban tbe sunbeam s warm awal^enina biss 
 (f ban tbe blue-bird s tbnllina notes above, 
 Por tbey come to tbee in tender love, 
 
 Wn emblem of fidelity, 
 
 (^)o tell my ever loyalty. 
 
 Annie C. McQueen. 
 
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