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EARS.] [Illustration] _HOPES AND FEARS._ _Like_ clouds that flit across the sky, So follow hopes and fears. What in these clouds see you and me Dear Sweetheart, smiles or tears? This little airy fleecy wing, That flits across the blue, What message Sweetheart does it bring Of hope or fear to you? Pray God it brings you _sunny hours_ And haply some few _tears_ To bless like showers your summer flowers In the long coming years. [Illustration] _THE STORY BOOK FAIRY._ _Shall_ I sing you a song, not short and not long, Of a story-book fairy who hides all among The covers and leaves of your pictures and prints, And colors them all with such beautiful tints? First he kisses the girls with the fairest of curls Then they blush like red roses and each head whirls. In each little eye drops a bit of blue sky, And colors each frock with a wonderful dye. His breathing I ween is the wonderful sheen, That clothes trees and meadows with loveliest green, The buttercups bold, it need hardly be told, Are gilded by him with the finest of gold. It is he I suppose who paints the red rose, And the rest of the flowers which every one knows, And the same red will do (or a similar hue), For Robin and little Red Riding Hood too. He's awake it is said when you are abed, For the picture-book doggies and cats must be fed, To the picture-book children some stories he'll tell, And sometimes he'll read them their verses as well. The moment you open your picture book he Is away out of sight as quick as can be, For fairy law says that a fairy must die The instant he's seen by one human eye. _SPRING._ _The_ tiny crocus is so bold It peeps its head above the mould, Before the flowers awaken, To say that spring is coming, dear, With sunshine and that winter drear Will soon be overtaken. [Illustration] [Illustration] _GOLDEN DAYS._ _There_ are days of summer sunshine, Of warm and sunny weather, When the hedge is full of hawthorn And hills are glad with heather. There are days of silent sadness, Of frost, and snow, and rain, When we fear that summer's gladness Will never come again.
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