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Years since but names to me before	A
Two sisters sought at eve my door	A
Two song birds wandering from their nest	B
A gray old farm house in the West	B
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How fresh of life the younger one	C
Half smiles half tears like rain in sun	C
Her gravest mood could scarce displace	D
The dimples of her nut brown face	D
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Wit sparkled on her lips not less	E
For quick and tremulous tenderness	F
And following close her merriest glance	G
Dreamed through her eyes the heart's romance	G
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Timid and still the elder had	H
Even then a smile too sweetly sad	H
The crown of pain that all must wear	I
Too early pressed her midnight hair	I
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Yet ere the summer eve grew long	J
Her modest lips were sweet with song	J
A memory haunted all her words	K
Of clover fields and singing birds	K
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Her dark dilating eyes expressed	B
The broad horizons of the west	B
Her speech dropped prairie flowers the gold	L
Of harvest wheat about her rolled	L
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Fore doomed to song she seemed to me	M
I queried not with destiny	M
I knew the trial and the need	N
Yet all the more I said God speed	N
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What could I other than I did	O
Could I a singing bird forbid	O
Deny the wind stirred leaf Rebuke	P
The music of the forest brook	Q
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She went with morning from my door	A
But left me richer than before	A
Thenceforth I knew her voice of cheer	R
The welcome of her partial ear	S
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Years passed through all the land her name	T
A pleasant household word became	T
All felt behind the singer stood	U
A sweet and gracious womanhood	U
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Her life was earnest work not play	V
Her tired feet climbed a weary way	V
And even through her lightest strain	W
We heard an undertone of pain	W
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Unseen of her her fair fame grew	X
The good she did she rarely knew	X
Unguessed of her in life the love	Y
That rained its tears her grave above	Y
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When last I saw her full of peace	Z
She waited for her great release	Z
And that old friend so sage and bland	A2
Our later Franklin held her hand	A2
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For all that patriot bosoms stirs	B2
Had moved that woman's heart of hers	B2
And men who toiled in storm and sun	C
Found her their meet companion	C
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Our converse from her suffering bed	C2
To healthful themes of life she led	C2
The out door world of bud and bloom	D2
And light and sweetness filled her room	D2
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Yet evermore an underthought	C2
Of loss to come within us wrought	C2
And all the while we felt the strain	W
Of the strong will that conquered pain	W
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God giveth quietness at last	C2
The common way that all have passed	C2
She went with mortal yearnings fond	C2
To fuller life and love beyond	C2
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Fold the rapt soul in your embrace	D
My dear ones Give the singer place	D
To you to her I know not where	I
I lift the silence of a prayer	I
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For only thus our own we find	C2
The gone before the left behind	C2
All mortal voices die between	E2
The unheard reaches the unseen	E2
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Again the blackbirds sing the streams	F2
Wake laughing from their winter dreams	F2
And tremble in the April showers	B2
The tassels of the maple flowers	B2
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But not for her has spring renewed	C2
The sweet surprises of the wood	C2
And bird and flower are lost to her	G2
Who was their best interpreter	G2
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What to shut eyes has God revealed	C2
What hear the ears that death has sealed	C2
What undreamed beauty passing show	H2
Requites the loss of all we know	H2
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O silent land to which we move	I2
Enough if there alone be love	Y
And mortal need can ne'er outgrow	H2
What it is waiting to bestow	H2
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O white soul from that far off shore	A
Float some sweet song the waters o'er	G2
Our faith confirm our fears dispel	J2
With the old voice we loved so well	J2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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