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Poems MacCarthy, Florence Denis

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RECOLLECTIONS.<br />

Ah! summer time, sweet summer scene,<br />

When all the golden days,<br />

Linked hand-in-hand, like moonlit fays,<br />

Danced o'er the deepening green.<br />

When, from the top of Pelier[111] down<br />

We saw the sun descend,<br />

With smiles that blessings seemed to send<br />

To our near native town.<br />

And when we saw him rise again<br />

High o'er the hills at morn--<br />

God's glorious prophet daily born<br />

To preach good will to men--<br />

Good-will and peace to all between<br />

The gates of night and day--<br />

Join with me, love, and with me say--<br />

Sweet summer time and scene.<br />

Sweet summer time, true age of gold,<br />

When hand-in-hand we went<br />

Slow by the quickening shrubs, intent<br />

To see the buds unfold:<br />

To trace new wild flowers in the grass,<br />

New blossoms on the bough,<br />

And see the water-lilies now<br />

Rise o'er the liquid glass.<br />

When from the fond and folding gale<br />

The scented briar I pulled,<br />

Or for thy kindred bosom culled<br />

The lily of the vale;--<br />

Thou without whom were dark the green,<br />

The golden turned to gray,<br />

Join with me, love, and with me say--

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