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IN or behold her wild eyes, and her mystical countenance fair.
W e sought in the woodj and we found the wood-wren in her stead ;
In the held, and we found but the cuckoo that talked overhead;
lSy the brook, and we found the; recd-sp.it'row, deep-nested in brown ;
Not Echo, fair Echo, for Echo, sweet Echo, was flown.

So we came to the place where the dead peopie wait till God call,
Fhe church was among iheni, gray moss over roof, over wall.
Very silent, so low. And wc stood on a green, grassy mound
And looked in at the window, for Echo perhaps, in her round
Might have come in to hide there. But, no; every oak-caiwcn scat
Was empty. W e saw the great Bible— old, old, very old.
A :id the parson:s great prayer book besidc it; wc ht:ard £be s 1 ow beat
O f the pendulum swing in the tow er; wo saw the clear gold
Of a sunbeam float down to tiie aisle, and then waver and play
On the low chancd step and the railing; and O.ivcr said,
11 Look, Katie! look, Katie! when LotLiee came here to he wed
She stood where that simbeaiu drops down, and ali white was her
g o w n ;
And she stepped upon flowers they strewed for her.’ '

Tnei: qcoth small Seven ;
<l Snail I wear a white gown and have flowers to walk upon ever ?
Ail doubtful : It takes a long time to grow up,11 quoth Klcven ;
Y o u ’re so little, you know, and the church is so old, it can never
La.^t on tdi you're tall." A nd in whispers— because it was old
And holy, and fraught with strange meaning, half felt, but not told.
Full of old parse nv prayers, who were dead, of old days, of old folk.
Neither heard oi beheld, but ^bout us— in whispers we spoke.
Then we went from it softly, and rail hand in hand to the strand,
While bleating of flocks and birds1 piping made sweeter the land,

And E cho came back e'en as Oliver drew to the ferry,
" O Katie ! ” Q Katie ! li Come on, then ! ” “ Come on, thenl
lt For .see,