George Augustus Baker, Jr. Blue Poems

• 1. A Legend Of St. Valentine
  Come! Why, halloa, that you, Jack?
  How's the world been using you?
  Want your pipe? it's in the jar
  Think I might be looking blue.
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• 2. Zwei Konige Auf Orkadal. From The German
  There sat two kings upon Orkadal,
  The torches flamed in the pillared hall.
  
  The minstrel sings, the red wine glows,
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• 3. Christmas Greens
  Oh, Lowbury pastor is fair and young,
  By far too good for a single life,
  And many a maiden, saith gossip's tongue,
  Would fain be Lowbury pastor's wife:
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• 4. The "stay-at-home's" Pëan
  The evenings are damper and colder;
  The maples and sumacs are red,
  The wild Equinoctial is coming,
  The flowers in the garden are dead.
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• 5. Chivalrie
  Under the maple boughs we sat,
  Annie Leslie and I together;
  She was trimming her sea-side hat
  With leaves we talked about the weather.
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• 6. Fishing
  "Harry, where have you been all morning?"
  "Down at the pool in the meadow-brook."
  "Fishing?" "Yes, but the trout were wary,
  Couldn't induce them to take a hook."
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