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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77623 ***</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class="box">
+<h1>
+EVENING SONGS
+</h1>
+
+<p class="center">
+BY<br>
+<span style="font-size: 1.3em">VÍTĚZSLAV HÁLEK</span><br>
+<i>From the Czech Original</i>
+</p>
+
+<p class="center p2" style="margin-bottom: 4em;">
+TRANSLATED BY<br>
+<span style="font-size: 1.3em">DR. JOSEPH ŠTÝBR</span>
+</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="logo" style="max-width: 7.625em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/logo.jpg" alt="">
+</figure>
+
+<p class="center p4">
+BOSTON<br>
+<span style="font-size: 1.3em">RICHARD G. BADGER</span><br>
+THE GORHAM PRESS
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<span class="smcap">Copyright, 1920, by Joseph Štýbr</span>
+</p>
+<hr class="r5">
+<p class="center">
+All Rights Reserved
+</p>
+<p class="center p6">Made in the United States of America</p>
+<hr class="r5">
+<p class="center">The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTION">
+    INTRODUCTION
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Vítězslav Hálek, whose little volume of verses
+is herewith presented to the reader in English
+translation, belonged to the romantic and lyric
+school of Czech poesy during the second half of the
+last century. He was born in 1835 and died in
+1874. From his first appearance in literature in
+1858 he held his nation at attention and enjoyed
+its admiration and love for twenty years. During
+that time he produced a line of works touching upon
+nearly all classes of writing; however, the lyric
+string of his lyre proved to be the most charming
+one, and this little volume of Evening Songs proved
+to be his culminating point. As an expression of
+fragrant effusions of feeling it always appealed to
+the tenderness of youthful hearts and was eagerly
+sought and read, so that the book in the original
+appeared in many editions.</p>
+
+<p>Should the little volume bring real pleasure to
+the reader and induce others to open wider the
+doors to the rich and charming Czech literature
+for the readers in English, the effort of the translator
+would be well rewarded.</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+  <span class="smcap">The Translator.</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a><a id="Page_5"></a>[Pg 5]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">
+    CONTENTS
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<table class="autotable">
+<tr>
+<th class="tdl"></th>
+<th class="tdr" style="font-size: small;">PAGE</th>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">As in the sky rises the moon</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">At prophets cast ye never stones</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Blest is the man whom the Lord’s hand</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Day and night went each their way, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Deep silence reigns—it seems to me</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Don’t wonder, shouldst Thou chance to hear</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">From heaven angels come to earth</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">God summoned me to paradise</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">God’s world is so far and wide, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Greatest hero is not he, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Heavens are replete with stars, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">He’s going far from home</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">He who can strike the golden strings</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Hey, in the rounds what pleasure</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Humming of the trees has ceased, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">I am a linden with large crown</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">I am the knight from the old tale</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">I bade the trumpets to be blown</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">I do not know, was it a dream?</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">I thought to myself, with no love</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">If all the world lost its delight</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">If that poor nightingale</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">In the sky the moon was standing</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">It happened. My soul minus Thee</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">It seemed to me—Grief had grown old</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Moon sails slowly in the sky, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Much has been trusted to Thy hands</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">My God, of all things I aspire</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">My lips were lockt a long, long time</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">My pillow was of sorrow made</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">My sweetheart, come, kneel down with me</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">My sweetheart, come, sit close to me</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">My sweetheart, I dreamt Thou hadst died</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">My sweetheart, look at those two clouds</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Night is fair and transparent, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Now go, my darling children, go</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Of my songs I shall build Thy throne</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Once as I through the golden stars</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Scorching heat of noonday sun, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Should I tell Thee the secret tale</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">So many, many things there are</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">So often it appears to me</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Spring came flying from afar, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Stars upon the heavens there, The</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Stars by the hundreds dot the sky</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Tell wherein thou hast sinned, my heart</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">That deep and dark blue heaven’s bowl</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">That little bird sings all the time</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">That nightingale has not retired</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">That young little singer there</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">There were two thoughts, two thoughts of God</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Those stars, those fair wee little stars</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Thou art still but a youthful bud</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Thou hast laid Thy hand on my head</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Thou maiden, charming most of all</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Though all the world has gone to sleep</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Thy beautiful eye is a lake</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">’Tis wrong for men to lack in song</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Up in the oak tree a dove wailed</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Upon the sky the moon and stars</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">What charm is there in love for us</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">What matters it what in sweet songs</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">When God felt His supreme delight</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">When I gaze at Thee, darling mine</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">When I shall trust my corpse to earth</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Ye all who deem yourselves oppressed</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Ye little, ye wee little stars</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[Pg 11]</span></p>
+  <p class="ph1">
+    EVENING SONGS
+  </p>
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="I">
+    I
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The spring came flying from afar;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With fresh desires all’s teeming;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All things pressed forward to the sun—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So long all had been dreaming!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The finches flew out of their nest</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And children from their bowers,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And on the meadows sweetest scents</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Breathe countless little flowers.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Young leaves press their way from the twigs</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And from birds’ throats their voices,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And in the heart with budding love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The youthful breast rejoices.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="II">
+    II
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I am the knight from the old tale</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who proudly to the far world rode</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To see the lass who’s like a rose</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And to discover her abode.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who would behold her—said her fame—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Would by a ban at once be struck;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His heart would be rent from his breast,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or he would change to be a rock.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thought I to myself, possibly</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For clemency there might be room.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I ventured out and for my sin—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Became a bard by rigid doom.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="III">
+    III
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The humming of the trees has ceased,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Their leaves breathe calmly, neatly;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The bird is dreaming its fair dream</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So quietly, so sweetly.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heavens’ stars have all come out,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All things rest in calm gladness,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But in the breast the sorrow wakes</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And in the heart the sadness.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The fragrant blossom’s pretty cup</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Receives dew in its centre—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My God, and I, too, feel that dew</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In mine eyes gently enter.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="IV">
+    IV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Though all the world has gone to sleep,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart wakes in the body,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God himself knows that the heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ne’er sleeps for anybody.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The whole God’s world is silence-bound,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart still goes, well rated,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God himself knows that the heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Gets never fatigated.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Sleep is the conqueror of thought,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Night is day’s alternation—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But in the breast the heart e’er wakes</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And guards its love’s sweet passion.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="V">
+    V
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Stars by the hundreds dot the sky</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With sister Moon at leisure,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God and angels view the world</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From heaven’s height with pleasure.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A smiling angel’s coming down</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To earth as heaven’s vision—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Fair as the fragrant breath of spring,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And love is his sweet mission.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Wherever he just passes by</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All’s stricken with sweet passion,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And nightingales and fair white doves</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All sing with animation.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And he whom his white wing does touch</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is transformed all over,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And something sweet enters his breast</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That human words can’t cover.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="VI">
+    VI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">What charm is there in love for us,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My God, and why we love it?</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The world would all dissolve in it</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And lives all in love of it.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The little cloud sails through the sky</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As though love’s message drove it;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The little bird that sleeps in twigs</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is dreaming only of it.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And here, too, on the earth the man,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While death his head does covet,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He weeps, rejoices, longs and lives</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And dies for the sake of it.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Indeed, the heaven’s angel choir</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With their harps’ music prove it—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What would they sing, if not allowed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To play and to sing of it!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="VII">
+    VII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">God summoned me to Paradise</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To get me educated.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">“’Tis hard for me to be alone!”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The Lord then Eve created.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">He took not one rib from my breast,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My heart in half he parted.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That is why my heart still tends back</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From where Thine once had started.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And that is why such strange desires</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So oft in my heart gather,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I feel as though both our hearts</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Should grow again together.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And that is why when I’m away</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Pain to my heart is creeping,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My foot does of itself turn back,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I am sad—to weeping.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="VIII">
+    VIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">If that poor nightingale</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lived always with her mate,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Her love songs would not sound</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So sad and desolate.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">If that poor heart but would</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With Thee wake through the night,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Instead of pain it would</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Resound with sweet delight.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="IX">
+    IX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Should I tell Thee the secret tale</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As nightingale in the oak forest—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or should I weep in bitter tears</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What sways my heart and gives it no rest?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or, kneeling down, with ardent words</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Should I in prayer spell my passion—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or in a fair and tranquil night</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Out of my dream breathe my confession?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or should the hidden paradise</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Sleep in my heart’s depth, never uttered,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Like in a grave, and far from Thee</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My love in secret be but muttered?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">O angel mine, I do confess</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My love for mankind, never dying;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But toward Thee—O, don’t chide me,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That my mind’s weak and undefying!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="X">
+    X
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My sweetheart, come, kneel down with me,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Now is the time for us to pray—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The moon has risen o’er the woods,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And my time has just passed away.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But, darling, do not clasp Thy hands;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Embrace me as I Thee with mine—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And thus, instead of clasping hands,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Two hearts will in one prayer join.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thy lips then press Thou close to mine;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From one mouth let the prayer rise—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Let me the words press on Thy lips,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And Thou send them to Paradise.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Our prayer shall be strong, indeed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Our offer purest in that case—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For angels, too, when they do pray,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Are praying just in such embrace.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XI">
+    XI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I am a linden with large crown,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In style dressed in the meadow:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou beautiful, sweet rose of May,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Come to my cooling shadow.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here each green leaf does odor breathe</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And swarms of bees are humming,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And, nightly, little birds arrive—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Those are my thoughts, home coming.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">They fly far-off as children do</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From home until they hunger,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But, with Thee seated close to me,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">They will depart no longer.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XII">
+    XII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">So often it appears to me,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As I embrace and love Thee,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That Thou art for me in the world</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I for the sake of Thee.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">’Tis difficult through life to pass</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Avoiding all deflection;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But to give others happiness</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is greatest satisfaction.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if the king enjoys his crown</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God has heaven’s Eden</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And birds have forest in the spring,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I do have Thee, my maiden.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XIII">
+    XIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou art still but a youthful bud</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Just into the world looming,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And yet upon Thy cheek appears</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A beautiful rose blooming.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And it is such a dainty rose</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And such a fragrant blossom</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That soon a fire burns in the soul</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And yearning in the bosom.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XIV">
+    XIV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That nightingale has not retired</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And she’s with song all ringing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That song of love, so long, my God,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When will she be done singing?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">From one twig to another twig,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From upper to the nether—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I believe that the same plight</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In hearts we bear together.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And turning up her serene eye</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She looks in each direction—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I believe that I could guess</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What is her eyes’ attraction.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XV">
+    XV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou maiden, charming most of all,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">O Thou, world’s greatest treasure,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Thee I found my sweet delight,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou art my cherished pleasure.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou art as pure as morning drops</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That come from heaven’s dewing</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And graceful as the turtle dove</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When she her song is cooing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou art fair as the lily white</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That in sweet odor guises</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And noble as the morning star—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The day dawns as she rises.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XVI">
+    XVI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">It happened. My soul minus Thee</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">No longer feels itself as whole;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To think myself without Thee once</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Would be as to have lost my soul.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Yes, Thou art woven in my soul</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou art her pride and her delight—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou art my solace, my desire,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My happiness—my pain and plight.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">From joyless days Thou heaven weav’st</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As does the bride her wedding dress;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In me Thou wak’st, in me Thou dream’st;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What I’m, what Thou, is hard to guess.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">It matters not what my fate be—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For I know well its weaving hand.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And should Thy hand destruction bring,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On that, too, heaven might depend.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XVII">
+    XVII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">When I gaze at Thee, darling mine—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou art a dove—though sweeter—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Delightful, playful, gentle, tame,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When her mate comes to meet her.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I can scarcely gaze enough</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At Thine eyes and cheeks’ blossom—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thine eyes are but two dark blue gates</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To Thy deep charming bosom.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I can scarcely gaze enough</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At Thy sweet face reflection—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through it Thy whole heart speaks to me</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And soul without deception.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">When I gaze at Thee, darling mine—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">O manna’s sweet dispenser!—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Are not those the same lips, indeed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That gave me “yes” for answer?</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XVIII">
+    XVIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thy beautiful eye is a lake</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In darkness gently waving;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In it the bright lights of the night</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And heavens’ blue are laving.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And as pure crystal it is clear,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">One sees the bottom in it—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But who attempts to look in deep</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will shortly be drowned in it.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XIX">
+    XIX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My sweetheart, come, sit close to me,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Allow me to embrace Thee;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The Lord gave Thee an angel’s soul</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From heaven, just to grace Thee.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I feel that I should speak to Thee</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And make confessions often,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But my words stay locked in my mouth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And dead as in a coffin.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And often what I’d like to say</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Appears unutterable,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For, though the soul is filled with it,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The tongue to speak’s unable.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But as I wind my arm ’round Thee</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And my soul in Thine enters,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I feel as though Thou knowest all</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What on my tongue then centres.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XX">
+    XX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Once as I through the golden stars</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Up heavenward was gazing,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">It seemed to me Thou wert a saint</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I an angel blazing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then I a harp took to my hand</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And songs to Thee I chanted</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Until the saints’ songs died away</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And all eyes to us slanted.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God the Father for a while</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Himself ceased in creation.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And down His cheek there seemed to roll</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A diamond of compassion.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXI">
+    XXI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The stars upon the heavens there</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Are worlds of greatest features,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I would only like to know</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What kind they have of creatures.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">If some one from that height up there</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At us ’way down here gazes,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if he up there like I here</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His voice in love songs raises.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXII">
+    XXII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The greatest hero is not he</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For blows with blows who’s paying,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But he who, hundred times betrayed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Himself knows no betraying.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who after love can send a curse</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He never felt love’s passion,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For love is able to forgive</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And knows no condemnation.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who will not bring a sacrifice</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To him no love be proffered;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Bad is the priest who thinks he’s more</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Than that what he has offered.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And should e’er love demand of me</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My life and share in heaven—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I would go as the lamb for Thee</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To whom my love I’ve given.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXIII">
+    XXIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heavens are replete with stars</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As spring time is with daisies;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thus everything in God’s great world</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For love has its own praises.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The violet’s replete with scent</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And dew in little blossom,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And that dear nightingale sings love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From overflowing bosom.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heavens are replete with stars,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With blazing lights all sweeping,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And here on earth the living men</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Are singing and are weeping.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXIV">
+    XXIV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Upon the sky the moon and stars,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The forest full of voices,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God spreads only love around</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In which the world rejoices.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The murmurs in young foliage</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Change to low sweet narration;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The world is gay and jubilant</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And melts in osculation.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And yet I know that somewhere grief</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Some youthful heart oppresses,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And that a secret bitter tear</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Some young pale cheek caresses.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXV">
+    XXV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The scorching heat of noonday sun</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is my love’s blazing passion;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The night—fair shadow of the day—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thy love’s sweet moderation.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou hast set fire within my breast,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Earth’s centre’s heat assuming,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But that fire, unnursed by Thy love,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will die, itself consuming.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I dreamt of banquets with Thy love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And have but crumbs collected;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What wonder, then, if only grief</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is in my face reflected.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart, indeed, can suffer much,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Oppressed by love’s great hunger,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And whether I am day or night</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I now can guess no longer.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">’Tis written thus. The day and night</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Proceed, each other missing—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But as the evening’s dusk arrives,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">They meet, each other kissing.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXVI">
+    XXVI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Tell wherein thou hast sinned, my heart;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My God, such tribulation!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That what forever should be joined</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Must live in separation.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">How beautiful the life would be</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In love without distressing!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But to forever yearn and live—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where is therein a blessing?</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXVII">
+    XXVII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">If all the world lost its delight</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And had no other pleasure</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And love alone was left behind—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The life would have its treasure.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if all other things were truth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And love but dreams’ delusion—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I would be ready to lie down</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And sleep to life’s conclusion.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if till now I’ve only dreamt—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My dreams had their sweet flavor,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And who sang me my lullabies</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I shan’t forget forever.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXVIII">
+    XXVIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">What matters it what in sweet songs</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The nightingale is telling,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Since my own heart has left its place</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And now with Thee ’tis dwelling.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if her call rang e’er so sweet</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And into mine ears chanted:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What matters it, since in my heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And soul now Thou art planted!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And there Thou art, so charmful,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Beyond imagination,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That I’d give the sky’s stars, my soul,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To Thee in admiration.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXIX">
+    XXIX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My sweetheart, I dreamt Thou hadst died;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I heard the death-knells pealing,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And there were tears and wails and cries</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And signs of saddest feeling.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">For the low mound o’er Thy strange bed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">They picked a tombstone blindly,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And a verse for Thine epitaph</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To write they asked me kindly.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Oh, folks! Oh, folks! yourselves of stones,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My heart take, with grief raving,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And what I have not sung before</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Use for the stone’s engraving!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">You trusted not in my pure love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And scorned my word and letter—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Now if the stone will speak to you,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">You’ll understand it better.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXX">
+    XXX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">When God felt His supreme delight,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The human heart He molded</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And for eternal memory</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His love in it He folded.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And as He gazed upon the heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With eyes divine, forseeing,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He wept, for He was overjoyed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To see the blissful being.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But as He wept, one of His tears,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Unnoticed, the heart entered,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As dew falls in a flower cup,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And near the bottom centered.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That is why love is a great grief,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But grief so sweet and charming</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That pitied must be all the hearts</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That have escaped its harming.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That is why love is half of bliss</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And half of grief a token,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But if the tear swells to a wave,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then some heart may be broken.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXI">
+    XXXI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">So many, many things there are</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To which the keys are lacking;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Deep silence answers all man’s knocks</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And foils his undertaking.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou human heart! There sorrows howl</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As wolves, by hunger driven,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And yet that same heart, oh, my God!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To love alone is given.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">’Tis capable of so much love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That man’s wit may be failing,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And he may as the lonely dove</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In vain roam, ever wailing.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXII">
+    XXXII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Up in the oak tree a dove wailed—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Below, a brooklet muttered—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Don’t wonder, when I was to speak,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That not a word I uttered.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Can he speak from all his soul’s depth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who does in strange lands wander?</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And man’s too human that he should</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At paradise not wonder.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXIII">
+    XXXIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The night is fair and transparent—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">One sees the heaven’s sainted;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The song, the odor, and the buzz</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Hold the whole heart enchanted.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">O pity, Thou art not with me,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To hear with me and wonder</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">How everything here tells its tale</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To the clear heavens yonder.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">How the whole world is but one song</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The universe pervading,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And that from human hearts but comes</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">An echo, faint and fading.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXIV">
+    XXXIV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Those stars, those fair wee little stars,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heavens’ blue dome lighting,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">They look to me down with sweet eyes,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Me up to them inviting.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Oh no! ye fair wee little stars;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">You love that wheel of heaven,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While I prefer to stay down here</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where I find all I’ve craven.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">You don’t know, fair wee little stars,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And think not what you’re missing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We have here heaven on the earth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In sweet, delightful kissing.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXV">
+    XXXV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I do not know, was it a dream?</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But in my mind it lingers—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I saw and read the nations’ fates,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Decreed by God’s own fingers.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thoughts, earnest as was God himself,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Passed through His great head, thronging</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And beautiful as nights of spring</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For a sweet body longing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Some thought—great as the universe,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Some—music sounding gently,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Some—future human history,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">By human eyes seen faintly.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">There, too, I met with my own love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And with Thy heart, ne’er failing,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That love of ours appeared there</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As two small bright clouds sailing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God, observing our sweet love,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Himself with grace relented,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And throngs of young angels their hymns</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Before Him on it chanted.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXVI">
+    XXXVI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That deep and dark blue heavens’ bowl—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And stars as golden blossoms;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As man looks at them from the earth,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His heart strange feelings bosoms.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And all the time more and more stars</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Appear without a bound there—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And yet not ev’ry little star</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Can easily be found there.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But whene’er in two youthful hearts</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">First breath of love does enter,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A new star is said to appear</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In heavens’ dark blue center.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if in one of the two hearts</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Love’s blossoms starts to wither,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then from the dark blue heavens’ bowl</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">One golden star drops hither.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXVII">
+    XXXVII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That little bird sings all the time</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As one song with life ringing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So wonder not, if one does love,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That he’ll pass life in singing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And that bird speaks from heart to heart,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And it knows how, directly,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So that man hardly keeps back tears,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">If he knows hearts perfectly.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Yes, often it appears to me</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That I am as its fellow,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For my songs, too, can move to tears,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So soft they are, and mellow.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXVIII">
+    XXXVIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Deep silence reigns—it seems to me</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Sleep comes to mine eyes, resting,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As does a bird come to its mate</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In their home softly nesting.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The night’s soft bed is ready made—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heavens, with stars covered.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Maybe that some heart will forget</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For what this day it suffered.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Maybe that some heart will forget,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if it found no treasure,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Maybe it finds it in its dream</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And with it finds its pleasure.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XXXIX">
+    XXXIX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">It seemed to me—Grief had grown old,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Soon would come its last countin’,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And tears—so many had been shed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That dry must be their fountain.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then suddenly I thought of Thee,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And soon my whole soul shivered,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And as though I should lose Thee soon</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">An echo in it quivered.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And mine eyes promptly filled with tears,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My joy to grief is bending,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I am finding out with pain</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That tears shall have no ending.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XL">
+    XL
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I thought to myself, with no love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">How’d look that world of ours:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">It would be as a dreary waste</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Without a trace of flowers.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart would wander through that waste</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And always on grief border,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">It would be sad as the world was</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ere God to light gave order.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">It would be so sad that on earth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Man would not like the livin’,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God the Father would not like</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To stay as God in heaven.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLI">
+    XLI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">There were two thoughts, two thoughts of God,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Two stars beside each other,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And from all of the heavens’ stars</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">They most loved one another.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Once one of them fell to the earth—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The other pined in sorrow,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God, touched by her grief and love,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Sent her down on the morrow.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">They sought each other many nights</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As lonely souls their Eden,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Until one day they chanced to meet</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As a young man and maiden.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Their eyes met, and they recognized</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Each other, tender-hearted,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And lived together in great bliss</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till one of them departed.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And when she died, she always called</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And languished for the other,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till God summoned the other one,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And they’re again together.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLII">
+    XLII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That young little singer there—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Why did she cease her narration?</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Her eyes quickly filled with tears</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As though grieved in separation.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Some one may think to himself,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">God, how can her young soul darken?</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Her face young and beautiful,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And her song so sweet to hearken.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ah, a beautiful young face</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">May not do in solace bringing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And though sweet the song may be—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">You don’t always feel like singing.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLIII">
+    XLIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">As in the sky rises the moon—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So into hearts love enters;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And secret pain and silent grief</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Around it often centers.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And visions man had not thought of</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He may see, dimly lighted,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And secret pain and silent grief</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">May be in song united.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But gales and tempests violent</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In many hearts are waking,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And ere in song they utter them—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">How many hearts are breaking!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLIV">
+    XLIV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ye all who deem yourselves oppressed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Come near, come nearer to me:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lay off your sorrows’ burdens here</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And light up your minds gloomy.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I’ve reared here a vast realm of love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where mate seeks his mate pretty,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And what one harbors in his heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Resounds in love’s sweet ditty.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">No rival here, no hater’s known,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here speech is love song, wooing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here lions turn to calm, meek lambs</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And hawks to doves, sweet, cooing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here are all ailments’ remedies;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here hearts are ever youthful;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here never fades the blooming rose,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And friendship’s ever truthful.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLV">
+    XLV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The day and night went each their way—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The day, as Judas, traitor,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The night, so fair, so beautiful,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That none can ever hate her.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The little stars shine in the sky,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The moon comes with her pallor,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And in the forest chats the dove,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The fair and tender caller.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart confesses to the heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With thoughts in distance sailing,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And longing lips thirst for a kiss,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From burning passion thrilling.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLVI">
+    XLVI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou hast laid Thy hand on my head,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My temples proud caressing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thy lips have whispered their sweet words</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In prayer and in blessing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou hast revealed Thy soul to me</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Thy love’s fragrant blossom,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And what I had not dared to dream—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thou took’st me to Thy bosom.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">With blessing Thou hast graced my harp,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My heart and my lips’ diction;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To pious battles Thou hast sent</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My songs with benediction.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My forehead is from sadness freed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Fears are a thing I scoff at,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My soul is filled with dawning light—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I am love’s great prophet.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLVII">
+    XLVII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of my songs I shall build Thy throne</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In style of bards of greatest fame.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thy sceptre shall be my own heart,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My fame shall be Thy diadem.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Love I shall declare to be law,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I shall sing daily Thine esteem;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Thy soul I’ll pour love’s delight</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And sweetest longing in Thy dream.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I shall bid birds to sing to Thee,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">May’s flowers shall fall to Thy feet;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I’ll change to heaven the world and all</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And there command the stars to meet.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I’ll make your subjects all men’s hearts,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Revive the Eden with my verse,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Proclaim Thee high queen of it all</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Throughout the whole of universe.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLVIII">
+    XLVIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Don’t wonder, shouldst Thou chance to hear</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Birds sing of Thy love’s wooing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">They called once at my window sill</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To see what I was doing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And they again came and again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And soon taught me to love them,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For I am free just as they are</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And am just like one of them.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I sang them many songs of Thee</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That in sweet love abounded,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And they soon tuned their throats to them</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till in their songs love sounded.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The other day I called on them</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In their woods and nooks shady</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And was surprised to find the birds</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To sing my songs already.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="XLIX">
+    XLIX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The God’s world is so far and wide</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And goodness in small measure;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">By thousands one can count the pains</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And very little pleasure.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart is ready to redeem</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With hundred pains one pleasure—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the same heart, O God, for love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will suffer past all measure.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="L">
+    L
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Hey, in the rounds what pleasure</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While one his lass embraces!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Let’s have the charming music—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Come, pale lad, join our races!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ah, the pale lad’s whole body</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As though with cold frost shivered,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And down his pale cheeks quickly</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A stream of hot tears quivered.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LI">
+    LI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ye little, ye wee little birds,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ye song-dreamers in sleeping;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Does anyone of you there know</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That I die here from weeping?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Dear moon, stop moving in the sky</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till I some solace gather;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My love’s fire’s extinct as art thou—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We both fit well together.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The last flame flickers to die out,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All that’s left are words hollow;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Yet I would blow all to new life,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Though nought but grief should follow.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LII">
+    LII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My pillow was of sorrow made</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My sleep were tears, free flowing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Go easy, my heart—not so loud:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Deep penitence I’m showing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The moon comes by the window in,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Gown’d in her deathly pallor,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And in the heart a song died down</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As of a bird, sad caller.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Dear moon, light up the stars on high;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Let dew descend on flowers;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Awake from sleep the nightingale,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But men—let sleep their hours!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">You carry off the gorgeous love—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">You know the calamity;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I am now but a wretched man—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ah, pity, pity, pity!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LIII">
+    LIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">“’Tis wrong for men to lack in song—”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In judgment God has spoken—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And then He sent a bard to men</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And gave him this as token:</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">“Throughout thy life have thou no rest,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thy bread with tears be eaten;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Know thou nought but hard suffering,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In all hopes be thou beaten!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">“Though thy heart be rent to its blood—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">View that blood to them clinging;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Though driven by them through all lands—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Love them—and keep on singing!”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That lot is common to us bards.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Men may have our songs chanted,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But with what had brought on our song—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">None cares to get acquainted.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LIV">
+    LIV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My lips were lockt a long, long time,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And mute as rocks are lonely,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But suddenly they were unlockt</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">By Thee with one kiss only.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That kiss fell as in month of May</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On parched earth falls a shower;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Now songs began to sprout again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In my soul with fresh power.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LV">
+    LV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">When I shall trust my corpse to earth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And my soul to God’s keeping,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I ask to be laid as a bard</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Away to my last sleeping.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Into my hand I want the lyre,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On head, leaves from laure’s arbor;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Let my new neighbors know at once</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who comes to their calm harbor.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I always holy held the lyre</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And not a mere toy only:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So let it be mine ornament</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In night long and place lonely.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Should we feel lonesome in the graves</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And, maybe, for home too sick,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then I shall sing a song for them</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And cheer them up with music.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And should in your lives sluggishness</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And sleep here overtake you:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I’ll rouse the dead and send them back,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And they shall come and wake you.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LVI">
+    LVI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My God, of all things I aspire</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I here confess, whole-hearted;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All I pray for is that from song</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I never shall be parted.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shouldst Thou withdraw my gift of song—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I ask to live no longer;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shouldst Thou for song bid me take bliss—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I still to song cling stronger.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LVII">
+    LVII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Blest is the man whom the Lord’s hand</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As bard had consecrated;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He has looked into God’s decrees</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And has men’s breasts well rated.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">He knows what says the world’s great psalm</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And what the birds are singing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He understands the throbbing heart,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In tears, and with joy ringing.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">What secret is to other men</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is open to his vision;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He is the leader of God’s race</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To its long promised region.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">He is the king of kingdoms vast,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The priest of men’s salvation,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And beauties’ treasures lie in him</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Beyond all estimation.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LVIII">
+    LVIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Much has been trusted to Thy hands;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My heart in them I planted,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And God placed sweet songs in that heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To have men’s bliss augmented.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A strange plant is the human heart—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Not easily to nourish;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For, it is up to love alone,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">If it shall die or flourish.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A strange plant is the human heart—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">It needs the climate’s favor</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And dew and rain and best of care</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To yield fruit of good flavor.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">So should my heart from Thy hands sprout</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In honor of the nation,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Long ages that are yet to come</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shall sing Thine adoration.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LIX">
+    LIX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I bade the trumpets to be blown</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For glorious resurrection;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I shall in final judgment sit—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ye shall hear your fates’ lection.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ye who have been opposed to love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And have against it spoken:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ye shall despair for all the time,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And your hearts shall be broken.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But ye who always have kept faith</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And treated love with favor:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ye come and gather on my right</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And live in love forever.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">To you in heaven special place</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And special bliss be given,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For, having loved upon the earth,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">You had the taste of heaven.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LX">
+    LX
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">He who can strike the golden strings</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Be highest honors given,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For God has shewn you such great love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That He sent him from heaven.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">It’s dreadful when with barren fields</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And plague God means to punish,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But greatest scorge visits the race</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From whom its songs do vanish.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That nation has not perished yet</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To whom its bards are singing:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For all song is of heaven’s birth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And life in death ’tis bringing.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LXI">
+    LXI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">At prophets cast ye never stones;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">They are as birds, shy, clever:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Cast thou a stone at him but once,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And he is gone forever.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">God’s fearful wrath the nation seeks</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Whose love of bards is shaken,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And greatest wrath befell the race</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From whom God songs has taken.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The poet’s heart is pure and chaste,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His faith does never vary;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Therefore, what he sings from his heart</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That ye in your hearts carry!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LXII">
+    LXII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">From heaven angels come to earth—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Dreams with their golden visions,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And each of them brings men in sleep</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Delight from happy regions.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Wherever these fair angels stop,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Men learn all they had craven;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For they know and tell them in dreams</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Fair tales direct from heaven.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The eyelids suddenly get sealed—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With sweetness of sleep laden:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thine image stands in front of me—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Good night, good night—my maiden!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LXIII">
+    LXIII
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Now go, my darling children, go—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">This is no more your station;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Accept for your quaint journey yet</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Your father’s osculation!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">May be, somewhere they’ll honor you</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And offer you receptions;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But somewhere they may criticise—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Be ready for exceptions!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But let your mind not be disturbed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Nor wrinkles in face driven:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All kinds of men live in the world,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But few to love are given.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LXIV">
+    LXIV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the sky the moon was standing;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Dreams to me new songs were lending.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Birds came and told one another</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">How much we did love each other.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That the fair fresh meadow flowers</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Would be wedding gowns of ours.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That green ivy with her story</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Would wreathe Thy head with its glory.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Adorned with thousand charms,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That Thou wouldst rest in my arms.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LXV">
+    LXV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">He’s going far from home,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With sorrow laden;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He turns yet and looks back—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Good-bye, dear maiden!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">He turns yet and looks back,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His kerchief waving;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With kerchief he dries yet</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Eyes in tears laving.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And now behind him closed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A foreign region</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As in the sky the lark</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Gets lost to vision.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">He’s gone, but he’ll come back</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Again, joy-laden—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But ere he will return—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Good-bye, dear maiden!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LXVI">
+    LXVI
+    <br>
+    (Posthumous)
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The moon sails slowly in the sky</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So calmly and so freely;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The nightingale wails in the twigs</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So sweetly and so really.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thy image stands in front of me</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So calmly and so freely;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart in longing wakes and calls</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So sweetly and so really.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A swarm of songs is circling ’round</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So calmly and so freely;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And into mine eye steals a tear</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So sweetly and so really.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Now gentle sleep knocks at my door</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So calmly and so freely—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I recall Thee to my mind</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So sweetly and so really.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="LXVII">
+    LXVII
+    <br>
+    (Posthumous)
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My sweetheart, look at those two clouds</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Above that mountain yonder—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The moon sheds her light on their way,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And in close touch they wander.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The maiden choir of quiet stars</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is twinkling to them greeting,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And gentle zephyrs in their breath</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Bring odors to them, fleeting.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lo! from the shrubs the nightingale</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Flew up with her narration—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Hark how she sends her song to them</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As song’s true incarnation!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">My love, look from Thy window there</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">How those clouds float together—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I asked them to bid Thee “good night,”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Sweet dreams ’round Thee to gather.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<div class="transnote">
+<p class="ph2">Transcriber’s notes</p>
+<p>Half-title page on page 9 has been removed in this edition.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77623 ***</div>
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