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Title: Blood for blood; a legend of the "big elm tree," Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Ballard, Granville Mellen Subjects: Publisher: Indianapolis, The Hollenbeck press Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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THE MORNING OF IMMORTALITY

As one who sits alone on frowning cliff
And looks across the ever-moaning sea
At ships that drop from sight-
As one who bends the knee
When stars come out at night
And belfry bells are calling you and me—
As one who sees the flight of birds
When winter comes apace—
As one who gazes lovingly and last
Upon his mothers face—
So Age sits on the summit of the years,
And listens to the curfew calling him to rest.
Complacently he hears the folding wings of time,
And falls to sleep upon his mothers breast.
And while one curtain drops, another lifts, and lo!
The rising sun and City Beautiful appear—
And, radiant with immortal youth, he says:
"Dear Lord, Im here."

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Hopeful and happy are they who sing,
Who look ahead to the wedding ring,
And mint and cummin and anise bring.
These live not zvhere the shadows fall
On broken column and ruined wall,
But out in the meadows of new-mown hay,
Where the lark soars upward and sings all day.


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