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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TSIENNETO. 23 When is the lake, in repose round its pillowy islands, Kissed by the spirit that reaches in dewiness o'er it; When, in assurance of slumber, content with your labor, You to your couches repair, and the murmurous forests Swing you to sleep, as the rocking of waves on the seashore. Read at Ossipee Mountain Park, to the people of Moulton- borough, Fourth of July, 1SS2. TSIENNETO. Sweet water glade ! I come once more to gaze on thee, And in the maple's branching shade, To listen to the wild-bird's glee That, in each little, margent wood, Befits the heart's ease of my mood. Here in thine edges hyaline I see the leafy maples green Inverted, till I seem to be Now gazing on the spirit realm; As when but sleep is at the helm Our craft of thought, all silently, Glides into realms of fantasy. 24 THE MOUNTAIN BROOK. I see the belt of sunshine gleam Like silver, midway on thy wave ; And in my fancy's idle dream, The glancing paddles in thee lave, Still dipped by them who knew of yore Thy gentle wave and pebbly shore. Their wigwam still is nestled here; Their birch canoe is still on thee, Tsienneto, like the birch's shade; For fancy makes our fancy clear; For things unseen may sometimes be So plainly in our mind's eye made. THE MOUNTAIN BROOK O, COME to the Hrook, To the love of the mountain! Where leafy-couched Summer lies Idling the day. She twirls in her eddy, She leaps in her fountain, And hides in the shrubs As they hang o'er her way. Weelahka. THE MOUNTAIN BROOK. 25 O, come to the Brook ! In the wild, woody valley. Her jewels, they sparkle Like gems of the sea. They gleam in the maze Of her dance, who doth sally With feet that are winged With a wild melody. O, come to the Brook! At her rill you may...
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