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Last Line: And the next—gone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth


'WHO comes so gracefully
Gliding along,
While the blue rivulet
Sleeps to her song;
Song, richly vying
With the faint sighing
Which swans, in dying,
Sweetly prolong?'

So sung the shepherd-boy
By the stream's side,
Watching that fairy-boat
Down the flood glide,
Like a bird winging,
Through the waves bringing
That Syren, singing
To the hushed tide.

'Stay', said the shepherd-boy,
'Fairy-boat, stay,
Linger, sweet minstrelsy,
Linger, a day.'
But vain his pleading,
Past him, unheeding,
Song and boat speeding,
Glided away.

So to our youthful eyes
Joy and hope shone;
So, while we gazed on them,
Fast they flew on;
Like flowers, declining
Even in the twining,
One moment shining,
And the next—gone!





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