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THE FOUNTAIN.

I know not how it seemed to me,
Or what my father thought,
But mother said I'd never be

A woman, as I ought.

I know 'tis hard such children wild
In polished rules to train;

And, if I were once more a child,
do just so again.

I'd

The Fountain.

INTO the sunshine,

Full of the light,
Leaping and flashing
From morn till night.
Into the moonlight,

Whiter than snow,
Waving so flower-like,

When the winds blow.

Into the starlight

Rushing in spray,

Happy at midnight,

Happy by day.

Anon.

THE FOUNTAIN.

Ever in motion,

Blithesome and cheery,

Still climbing heavenward,

Never a-weary.

Glad of all weathers,

Still seeming best;
Upward or downward,
Motion thy rest.

Full of a nature

Nothing can tame,
Changed every moment,

Ever the same.

Ceaseless aspiring,

Ceaseless content,

Darkness or sunshine

Thy element.

Glorious Fountain !

Let my heart be

Fresh, changeful constant,

Upward like thee.

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Song of the Flower Angels.

E tend the flowers of every hue,

WE

Mrs. Hale.

But love the red, the white, the blue-
Red, and white, and blue;

The red is Love's sweet blushing hue,

And white is fair as Faith to view,

And Truth is imaged in the blue

Red, and white, and blue;

Where Faith is free, and Love is true,
We sow the red, and white, and blue.

In Eastern lands the seed we cast,
But thorns would choke, or mildew blast,
Red, and white, and blue;

Sweet Love was lost in Passion's fires

From idol-worship Faith retires

And Truth by despot's power expires,-
Red, and white, and blue-

All faded, perished, where they grew,
The flowers of red, and white, and blue.

SONG OF THE FLOWER ANGELS.

Then to the Western World we came,
And sowed the flowers of holy name—

Red, and white, and blue.

Love, and Faith, and Truth, were sown
And oh how strong the plants are grown!
And o'er the earth the flowers are strown,
Red, and white, and blue;

For Freedom, eagle-pinioned, flew,

To bear the red, and white, and blue.

Now in a banner, fair to see,

The hues are twined in Trinity,

Red, and white, and blue:

The red and white, like flowers of light,
And stars, as seeds, the blue bedight;
And o'er the world this banner bright,
Red, and white, and blue-

Shall have a guard of angels true,

Who love the red, and white, and blue.

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