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THREE SONGS.

I.

TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY.THE perfume of the orange-flowers

Steals through the church to-day,

The splendid walls re-echo loud

With sounds of music gay.

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But yesterday a sorrowing one

Left here her only child,

Mid kindly weeping comforters,

Mid music sad and wild.

II.

MOTHER-OF-PEARL.The sunbeams ever waken

To life thy paleness rare;

And changing colors all trembling

Dispel thy cold, dumb care.

O maiden, thy pale, pale beauty,

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