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A HEINE LOVE SONG

Eugene Field

The image of the moon at night

All trembling in the ocean lies,

But she, with calm and steadfast light,

Moves proudly through the radiant skies,

 

How like the tranquil moon thou art--

Thou fairest flower of womankind!

And, look, within my fluttering heart

Thy image trembling is enshrined!

 

 

 

UHLAND'S "CHAPEL"

 

Yonder stands the hillside chapel

Mid the evergreens and rocks,

All day long it hears the song

Of the shepherd to his flocks.

 

Then the chapel bell goes tolling--

Knelling for a soul that's sped;

Silent and sad the shepherd lad

Hears the requiem for the dead.

 

Shepherd, singers of the valley,

Voiceless now, speed on before;

Soon shall knell that chapel bell

For the songs you'll sing no more.