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Title: Tales of early love. To sweethearts, wife, mother, native land, church, God
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Welburn, Drummond), b. 1818. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Printed for the author, Publishing house of the M. E. church, South
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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,Though at early dawn retiring.To indulge in fond caressingOr confer some priceless blessing^On the happy ones whose dreamingWith ecstatic bliss was teaming.Starry hosts gazed fondly, brightly,Till Aurora, tripping hghtly.Passed the portals of the morning.All the Orient adorning,Then departed, gayly dancing.As she saw the sun advancing;But, obedient to duty.Modest clouds, in dimpled beauty,Came in rosy love tints flushing,With admiring envy blushing,Almost offring adorationTo the fairest of creation.Misty morning stood enchantedWhen his nimble feet were planted,On the threshold where recliningLoveliness was seen entwiningOpning buds and blooming flowersFor her happy nuptial hours.Then the king of day came rushing,Gloom and twihght swiftly brushingFrom his pathway bright, and blazing;While the world was wildly gazingAt the jewels which he lavishedOn the hearts his grandeur ravishedWhen the radiant glory gleamingFrom his face, with brightness beaming,Blazed on river, lake, and fountain,
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TALES OF EARLY LOVE. 31 Flashed on valley, plain, and mountain, Changing tear drops of the dawning Into diamonds of the morning. Eound his steps were flowers blooming, All the air with sweets perfuming, While the blessedness of heaven Seemed to mortals richly given, As on the bridal beauty glancing. All was dazzling and entrancing. Then the sportive hours stepped sprightly As they saw their monarch lightly Move in majesty and beauty To perform his loving duty, Nuptial torches gladly bearing. As if more than honored sharing, In the blissfulness attending On the bridal that was blending Hearts that death can never sever, As theyll still love on forever, In the home of love immortal Just beyond the pearly portal.

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