So proud a thing it was for him to wearLove's golden chain,With which it is best freedom to be bound.1
So proud a thing it was for him to wearLove's golden chain,With which it is best freedom to be bound.1
1DRUMMOND.
Happy indeed if there be happiness on earth, as that same sweet poet says, is he,
Who love enjoys, and placed hath his mindWhere fairest virtues fairest beauties grace,Then in himself such store of worth doth findThat he deserves to find so good a place.2
Who love enjoys, and placed hath his mindWhere fairest virtues fairest beauties grace,Then in himself such store of worth doth findThat he deserves to find so good a place.2
2DRUMMOND.
This was Leonard's case; and when he kissed the paper which her hand had pressed it was with a consciousness of the strength and sincerity of his affection, which at once rejoiced and fortified his heart. To Margaret his letters were like summer dew upon the herb that thirsts for such refreshment. Whenever they arrived, a head-ache became the cause or pretext for retiring earlier than usual to her chamber, that she might weep and dream over the precious lines.
True gentle love is like the summer dew,Which falls around when all is still and hush;And falls unseen until its bright drops strewWith odours, herb and flower and bank and bush.O love—when womanhood is in the flush,And man's a young and an unspotted thing,His first-breathed word, and her half-conscious blush,Are fair as light in heaven, or flowers in spring.3
True gentle love is like the summer dew,Which falls around when all is still and hush;And falls unseen until its bright drops strewWith odours, herb and flower and bank and bush.O love—when womanhood is in the flush,And man's a young and an unspotted thing,His first-breathed word, and her half-conscious blush,Are fair as light in heaven, or flowers in spring.3
3ALLANCUNNINGHAM.
END OF VOL. II.
END OF VOL. II.
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