Idea! which bindest life around With music of so strange a sound Farewell! for I have won the Earth. When Hope, the eagle that tower'd, could see That soul will hate the ev'ning mist So often lovely, and will list. To the sound of the coming darkness (known To those whose spirits harken) as one Who, in a dream of night, would fly What tho' the moon the white moon For all we live to know is known, which is all. I reach'd my home my home no more And, tho' my tread was soft and low, Father, I firmly do believe I know for Death who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, And rays of truth you cannot see Are flashing thro' Eternity I do believe that Eblis hath A snare in every human path From the most unpolluted things, Whose pleasant bowers are yet so riven Till growing bold, he laughed and leapt ΤΟ HE bowers whereat, in dreams, I see The wantonest singing birds, Are lips and all thy melody Of lip-begotten words. Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined, Then desolately fall, O God! on my funereal mind Like starlight on a pall. Thy heart thy heart-I wake and sigh, And sleep to dream till day Of the truth that gold can never buy Of the baubles that it may. PIS A DREAM. N visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed— Ah! what is not a dream by day That holy dream-that holy dream, What though that light, thro' storm and night, What could there be more purely bright R ROMANCE. OMANCE, who loves to nod and sing, To me a painted paroquet Hath been a most familiar bird Of late, eternal Condor years # That little time with lyre and rhyme To while away-forbidden things! My heart would feel to be a crime Unless it trembled with the strings. D FAIRY-LAND. IM vales and shadowy floods Whose forms we can't discover |