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 CHARMED MOMENTS.

Chopin's Nocturne, Op. 37, no. 1.

The sky is a brilliant enamel; The sea is a beautiful gem; The hours are beautiful flowers That pass, and we keep none of them; They bear not the thing we would cherish, Those beautiful fruitless flowers; Each comes up to blossom and perish; We wait, and another is ours:

We wait till the heavens above us, The flowering earth, or the seas Shall bring us the soul meant to love us, And hours much sweeter than these.