MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

By Charles Sangster


 

LOVE’S NEW ERA.



There’s a wild joy within my heart,
     Hope’s sunlight warms my brain,
And my thirsty soul drinks Gladness in,
     As the earth drinks summer rain;
Flushed Health is leaping through my veins,

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     My blood is all aglow,
Each pulse has a loud and a stately beat,
     And my thoughts are like the snow.

For Woman’s Voice of Love hath burst
     Like a meteor on my way, [Page 215]

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And I live in smiles, like the Sun’s bright Isles,
     That bask in Eternal Day.
Life never came to me till now,
     But pass’d like a restless dream,
Where Love for evermore wandered by,

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     Like a rose upon a stream. [Page 216]