“LOVE WILL FIND OUT A WAY.”

That Love should find a way through iron bars

And close-drawn bolts—this does not seem so strange;—

More strange I count it that with wider range,

With naught to mark its course beneath the stars,

Love finds its sure, swift way. That day when we

First parted, Love, how dangerously near

The chance we never met again! though clear

In the broad daylight, unrestrained and free

As breeze from heaven, naught between us lay

But the wide, shining, trackless fields of air

That gave no sign; the lonely vastness, where

Love saw no clue to guide it, or to stay

Its course;—well might the lover in despair

Yield up his search;—and yet Love found a way!