| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Poems.
II. A Silly Song | | By Dinah Maria Craik (1826–1887) |
| | | “O HEART, my heart!” she said, and heard | |
| His mate the blackbird calling, | |
| While through the sheen of the garden green | |
| May rain was softly falling,— | |
| Aye softly, softly falling. | 5 |
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| The buttercups across the field | |
| Made sunshine rifts of splendour: | |
| The round snow-bud of the thorn in the wood | |
| Peeped through its leafage tender, | |
| As the rain came softly falling. | 10 |
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| “O heart, my heart!” she said and smiled, | |
| “There’s not a tree of the valley, | |
| Or a leaf I wis which the rain’s soft kiss | |
| Freshens in yonder alley, | |
| Where the drops keep ever falling,— | 15 |
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| “There’s not a foolish flower i’ the grass, | |
| Or bird through the woodland calling, | |
| So glad again of the coming rain | |
| As I of these tears now falling,— | |
| These happy tears down falling.” | 20 | | | |
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