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"THE UPWARD ROAD."

F thou hadst told me, when the bloom
 Of last year's June was on the tree,
That ere another spring should come
 I should have looked my last on thee,—

If I had known that now, alas!
 Our ways would lie so far apart
That now the clover-blooms and grass
 Would wave above thy pulseless heart,—

That when my thoughts should turn to thee,
 Thy olden smile and word to crave,
It would but lead me mournfully
 Beside a newly-sodded grave,—

I should have clasped thy friendly hand
 With warmer pressure, when we met,
Igor blindly failed to understand
 The eyes whose meaning haunts me yet;