Pebbles and Shells (Hawkes collection)/Sweet Claribel
SWEET CLARIBEL
Sweet Claribel, we called her Nature's child, Because she was a child of many moods; She loved the flowers, the meadows, and the woods,But most of all the birds that caroled wild.
Her azure eyes, were ever deep and mild Like summer skies; her lips were cherry buds; She laughed more sweetly than the brook that floodsThe mill, and all was sunshine when she smiled.
To-day she sleeps, and o'er her lowly graveThe cactus blooms, and fair palmettos wave,— But does she know the skies are wondrous blue?It cannot be she heard what robin said,Or sees the flowers that cluster round her head; She'd wake, and come up laughing if she knew.