Ballads of the Hills Author:John Foster General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: John B. Clarke Company Subjects: American poetry Fiction / Literary Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / American / G... more »eneral Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: But still you stand in nature's plan, A feature grand and large, Forever bearing that great name, The famous Kearsarge. Guard on, grand peak, thy fame sublime; Its lustre of the past Shall glow undimmed on history's page As long as time shall last. TO THE TIGER LILY. Why do I love thee best of all, Dear flowering plant of olden time? Why does thy blossom hold my heart, When others are as fair as thine? It is because in life's young day I planted seeds and saw them grow; I saw them blossom in their way; They died and withered, all but you. My hopes, like flowers, have withered too; The winds of time have blown them wide, And while I linger here alone, Be thou my emblem and my guide. Emblem of faith, you never die; Emblem of hope, you bloom each morn; Emblem of love, you linger still, And blossom when all else is gone. This little verse I give to thee; I give it humbly, as a slave; Bloom on along my pathway here, And blossom ever o'er my grave. IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE OLD HOYT SCHOOL- HOUSE, WARNER, N. H. Back o'er the lapse of many years My memory drifts tonight; Back over days that were sad and dark, O'er days of joy and light. Back to the time when my boyish heart Beat quick with its youthful thrill; Back to the time when I learned to read In the. schoolhouse under the hill. Shaded by map...« less