Sweet, blessed beads! I would not part     With one of you for richest gem     That gleams in kingly diadem;    Ye know the history of my heart….

   Oft within our little cottage,     As the shadows gently fall,    While the sunlight touches softly     One sweet face upon the wall,    Do we gather close together,     And…

    The olden golden stories of the world,        That stirred the past,     And now are dim as dreams,    The lays and legends which the bards unfurled        In lines that…

    They come, as the breeze comes over the foam,     Waking the waves that are sinking to sleep —    The fairest of memories from far-away home,     The…

    Gather the sacred dust         Of the warriors tried and true,    Who bore the flag of a Nation’s trust    And fell in a cause, though lost, still just,        …

    When I am dead, and all will soon forget     My words, and face, and ways —    I, somehow, think I’ll walk beside thee yet     Adown thy…

        We borrow,        In our sorrow,    From the sun of some to-morrow     Half the light that gilds to-day;        And the splendor        Flashes tender    O’er hope’s footsteps to defend her     From the…

    The world is sweet, and fair, and bright,     And joy aboundeth everywhere,    The glorious stars crown every night,     And thro’ the dark of ev’ry care    Above us…

    The death of men is not the death    Of rights that urged them to the fray;        For men may yield        On battle-field    A noble life with stainless shield,        And swords…

    Sometimes, from the far-away,     Wing a little thought to me;    In the night or in the day,     It will give a rest to me.     I have…