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I WAS a laughing child and gaily dwelt	A
Where murmuring brooks and dark blue rivers roll'd	B
And shadowy trees outspread their silent arms	C
To welcome all the weary to their rest	D
And there an antique castle rais'd its head	E
Where dwelt a fair and fairy girl perchance	F
Two summers she had seen beyond my years	G
And all she said or did was said and done	H
With such a light and airy sportiveness	G
That oft I envied her for I was poor	I
And lowly and to me her fate did seem	J
Fraught with a certainty of happiness	G
Years past and she was wed against her will	K
To one who sought her for the gold she brought	L
And they did vex and wound her gentle spirit	M
Till madness took the place of misery	N
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And oft I heard her low soft gentle song	O
Breathing of early times with mournful sound	P
Till I could weep to hear and thought how sad	Q
The envied future of her life had prov'd	R
And then I grew a fond and thoughtful girl	S
Loving and deeming I was lov'd again	T
But he that won my easy heart full soon	U
Turn'd to another she might be more fair	V
But could not love him better And I wept	W
Day after day till weary grew my spirit	M
With fancying how happy she must be	N
Whom he had chosen yet she was not so	G
For he she wedded loved her for a time	X
And then he changed even as he did to me	N
Though something later and he sought another	Y
To please his fancy far away from home	Z
And he was kind oh yes he still was kind	A2
It vex'd her more for though she knew his love	B2
Had faded like the primrose after spring	C2
Yet there was nothing which she might complain	D2
Had cause to grieve her he was gentle still	K
She would have given all the store she had	Q
That he would but be angry for an hour	Y
That she might come and soothe his wounded spirit	M
And lay her weeping head upon his bosom	E2
And say how freely she forgave her wrongs	G
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But still with calm cold kindness he pursued	F2
Kindness the mockery of departed love	B2
His way and then she died the broken hearted	G2
And I thanked heaven who gave me not her lot	H2
Though I had wish'd it	I2
Again I was a wife a happy wife	J2
And he I loved was still unchangeable	K
And kind and true and loved me from his soul	K
But I was childless and my lonely heart	K2
Yearned for an image of my heart's beloved	L2
A something which should be my 'future' now	M2
That I had so much of my life gone by	N2
Something to look to after I should go	G
And all except my memory be past	O2
There was a child a little rosy thing	C2
With sunny eyes and curled and shining hair	V
That used to play among the daisy flowers	G
Looking as innocent and fair as they	P2
And sail its little boat upon the stream	J
Gazing with dark blue eyes in the blue waters	G
And singing in its merriment of heart	K2
All the bright day and when the sun was setting	C2
It came unbid to its glad mother's side	Q2
To lisp with holy look its evening prayer	V
And kneeling on the green and flowery ground	P
At the sweet cottage door he fixed his eyes	G
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For some short moments on her tranquil face	G
As if she was his guiding star to God	R2
And then with young meek innocent brow upraised	R2
Spoke the slow words with lips that longed to smile	K
But dared not Oh I loved that child with all	K
A mother's fondest love and as he grew	S2
More and more beautiful from day to day	R2
The half involuntary sigh I gave	T2
Spoke but too plain the wish that he were mine	U2
My child my own And in my solitude	R2
Often I clasped my hands and thought of him	V2
And looked with mournful and reproachful gaze	G
To heaven which had denied me such a one	H
Years past the child became a rebel boy	W2
The boy a wild untamed and passionate youth	X2
The youth a man but such a man so fierce	G
So wild so headlong and so haughty too	S2
So cruel in avenging any wrongs	G
So merciless when he had half avenged them	Y2
At length his hour had come a deed of blood	R2
Of murder was upon his guilty soul	K
He stood in that same spot by his sweet home	Z
The same blue river flowing by his feet	R2
Whose stream might never wash his guilt away	R2
The same green hills and mossy sloping banks	G
Where the bright sun was smiling as of yore	Z2
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With pallid cheek and dark and sullen brow	M2
The beautiful and lost you might have deemed	R2
That Satan newly banished stood and gazed	R2
On the bright scenery of an infant world	R2
For fallen as he was his Maker's hand	R2
Had stamped him beauteous and he was so still	K
And his eyes turned from off his early home	Z
With something like a shudder and they lighted	R2
On his poor broken hearted mother's grave	T2
And there was something in them of old times	G
Ere sin had darkened o'er their tranquil blue	S2
In that most mournful look that made me weep	A3
'For I had gazed on him with fear and anguish	B3
Till now And 'weep for her ' my favourite said	R2
For she was good I murdered her I killed	R2
Many that harmed me not ' And still he spoke	C3
In a low listless voice and forms came round	R2
Who dragged him from us I remember not	R2
What followed then But on another day	R2
There was a crowd collected and a cart	R2
Slowly approached to give to shameful death	D3
Its burden and there was a prayer and silence	G
Silence like that of death And then a murmur	Y
And all was over And I groaned and turned	R2
To where his poor old father had been sitting	C2
And there he sate still with his feeble limbs	G
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And palsied head and dim and watery eyes	G
Gazing up at the place where was his son	H
And with a shuddering touch I sought to rouse him	V2
But could not for the poor old man was dead	R2
And then I flung myself upon the ground	R2
And mingled salt tears with the evening dew	S2
And thanked my God that he was not my son	H
And that I was a childless lonely wife	J2
To morrow I will tell thee all that now	M2
Remains to tell but I am old and feeble	K
And cannot speak for tears	G
She rose and went	R2
But she returned no more The morrow came	E3
But not to her the tale of life was finished	R2
Not by her lips for she had ceased to breath	D3
But by this silent warning joined to hers	G
How little we may count upon the future	Y
Or reckon what that future may bring forth	F3

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

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