Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GERALDINE GREEN. THE SERENADE. If pathos should thy losoin stir To tears more sweet than laughter. Then bless its hind interpreter. And love him ever after 1 Light slumber is quitting The eyelids it prest; The fairies are flitting, Who charm'd thee to rest. Where night dews were falling, Now feeds the wild bee; The starling is calling, My darling, for thee. The wavelets are crisper That thrill the shy fern; The leaves fondly whisper, " We wait thy return." 3O Geraldine Green. Arise then, and hazy Distrust from thee fling, For sorrows that crazy To-morrows may bring. A vague yearning smote us, But wake not to weep ; My bark, Love, shall float us Across the still deep, To isles where the lotus Erst lull'd thee to sleep. 1861. li. MY LIFE IS A Fair Emma mocks my trials, Shc pokes her jokes in Sevenoaks At me in Seven Dials.— At Worthing, an exile from Geraldine G , How aimless, how wretched an exile is he ! Promenades are not even prunella and leather To lovers, if lovers can't foot them together. He flies the parade, by the ocean he stands; He traces a "Geraldine G." on the sands; Geraldine Green. 31 Only "G.!" though her loved patronymic is "Green,"— " I will not betray thee, my own Geraldine." The fortunes of men have a time and a tide, And Fate, the old Fury, will not be denied; That name was, of course, soon wiped out by the sea,— She jilted the exile, did Geraldine G. They meet, but they never have spoken since that; He hopes she is happy,—he knows she is fat; She, woo'd on the shore, now is wed in the Strand,— And /—it was I wrote her name on the sand. 1854. VANITY FAIR. " Vanitas vanitatum " has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years ; The wail s... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.