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"When the glad sun, exulting in his might, Comes from the dusky-curtaind tents of night."
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Emma Catherine Embury
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Emma Catherine Embury was an American writer and poet. Under the pen name of "Ianthe", she contributed to the periodicals of the day, and may be considered among the pioneers of female literature in the United States. Her many poems and tales were afterwards collected and published in book form. Among these volumes are The Blind Girl and Other Tales, Glimpses of Home Life, Pictures of Early Life,
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"Like the sweet melody which faintly lingers Upon the wind-harps strings at close of day, When gently touchd by evenings dewy fingers It breathes a low and melancholy lay; So the calm voice of sympathy meseemeth; And while its magic spell is round me cast, My spirit in its cloistered silence dreameth, And vaguely blends the future with the past."
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"There dwelleth in the sinlessness of youth A sweet rebuke that vice may not endure."
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"— The graves dark portal Soon shuts this world of shadows from our view, Then shall we grasp realities immortal, If to the truth within us we are true."
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"The gathered rose, and the stolen heart, Can charm but for a day."
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"The charm of eloquence, — the skill To wake each secret string, And from the bosoms chords at will Lifes mournful music bring, — The oermastering strength of mind, which sway The haughty and the free, Whose might earths mightiest one obeys, These, — these were given to thee."
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