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SECOND-SIGHT.
Under the apple bough she sits,The sunshine in her flying hair;Dimpling and laughing through the fallOf blushing flakes about her there.
And as I gaze I picture me,Beside this darling of our souls,Two innocents with softer locks,Half ringlets and half aureoles.
They frolic with her in the grass;They listen to the bird, the bee;They catch the petals as they float;They babble music in their glee.
They teach the little earthling howThe cherubs play in hallowed courts,With some great gracious angel near,And smiling on them at their sports.