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THE SUN'S WOOING.

The sun just touched the morning;

The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

She felt herself supremer,-- A raised, ethereal thing;

Henceforth for her what holiday!

Meanwhile, her wheeling king Trailed slow along the orchards His haughty, spangled hems, Leaving a new necessity, --The want of diadems!

The morning fluttered, staggered, Felt feebly for her crown, --Her unanointed forehead Henceforth her only one.