Rhymes From Different Climes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rhymes From Different Climes<br><br>The Country Woman Verse The City<br><br>(Written for Anniversary of sorosis 1894, at request of our president Fanny Helmuth)<br><br>My lady lives in the city,<br>The country I;<br>She looks out upon a palace,<br>I the sky.<br><br>Her rooms are darkened with laces,<br>Not so mine,<br>Only with climbing roses<br>And eglantine.<br>The sun that shines o'er land and sea<br>Floods my windows and comforts me.<br><br>My lady has her flowers<br>So have I,<br>She buys them at the corner<br>Nearest by,<br>My garden is red with roses,<br>There are lilies, too,<br>I gather them in the morning<br>Wet with dew<br>Just when the world is hushed and still<br>And not a sunbeam glints the hill.<br><br>My lady has her horses,<br>So have I;<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.