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WANDERING THOUGHTS by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP

First Line: CLIMBING O'ER THE MOUNTAIN
Last Line: ECSTATIC BLISS IN ONE ELYSIAN FIELD.
Subject(s): LOVE; THOUGHT; WANDERING & WANDERERS; THINKING; WANDERLUST; VAGABONDS; TRAMPS; HOBOES;
CLIMBING o'er the mountain,
Wand'ring down the valley;
Playing by the fountain
Where the birdlings rally:

Lingers in the mellow twilight
All the hoping heart's delight,
If only faithful lovers know
The spirit's happy afterglow.

Sailing o'er the ocean
And the bounding billow;
Saddened by the motion
Of the weeping willow:

Burning in the wilding heart
The passion of a lover's art,
To gather in its folded wings
The bliss that only poet sings.

Gazing on a star,
With its gleaming light
Coming from afar
Through the fairy night:

Only he can walk the lover's lane
That worships at a starry fane,
By mountain gulfs divinely awed,
And spends his hours there with God.

Silver winged clouds
Floating ever by;
Nature's mystic shrouds
Over land and sky:

Spirits of the air on downy throne,
That move in passion all alone
The longing soul and whisper there
The peaceful dream of love so fair.

Wading laughing waters,
Mooning in the forest;
Praying for the father's
Burdens that are sorest.

Loving all the throbbing human kind,
In one that gently turns the mind
To mould the heart for noble deeds,
And wins his peace in joyous meads.

Dreaming in the gloaming,
Waiting for the morning;
Staying all my roaming
With the spirit's warning:

Waiting for the love that ever weds
In life the gold and silver threads
Of joy and pain, and marks the rest
Of those who are forever blest.

Feel the winds ablowing,
See the skies aglowing,
Watch the clouds aflying;
Summer days are dying:

The sadder autumn moments still
The sunbeams' ardent cheering thrill;
But loving hearts throb on to yield
Ecstatic bliss in one Elysian field.



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