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Title: Ave Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] PRELUDE TO "ILLUSTRATED POEMS" FULL well I know the frozen hand has come Yet would I find one blossom, if I might, Sometimes in dim November's narrowing day, We spy in sheltered nook or rocky cleft Some pansy, with its wondering baby eyes Or golden daisy,--will it dare disclaim The storms have stripped the lily and the rose, So had I looked some bud of song to find Ah me! my skies are dark with sudden grief, The joyous, blessed sunshine of the past, Go, pictured rhymes, for loving readers meant; BEVERLY FARMS, July 24, 1884. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |