SONG. I. I SAW thee on thy bridal day, When a burning blush came o'er thee; Though happiness around thee lay, The world all love before thee: II. And in thine eye a kindling light (Whatever it might be) Was all on earth my aching sight Of loveliness could see. III. That blush perhaps was maiden shame, As such it well may pass, Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame In the breast of him, alas, IV. Who saw thee on that bridal day, When that deep blush would come o'er thee; Though happiness around thee lay, The world all love before thee. TO M. L. S. Of all who hail thy presence as the morning-- Of all who, on despair's unhallowed bed At thy soft-murmured words, "Let there be light!" In the seraphic glancing of thine eyes Of all who owe thee most, whose gratitude Nearest resembles worship,-oh, remember And think that these weak lines are written by him-- His spirit is communing with an angel's. ΤΟ HELEN. HELEN, thy beauty is to me On desperate seas long wont to roam, Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche Bell & Bain, Printers, Glasgow. |