LOVE’S TRANSFIGURATION.

O strange sweet loveliness! O tender grace,

That in the light of passion’s day-spring threw

Soft splendour on a fair familiar face,

Changing it, yet unchanged, and old, yet new!

Perfect the portrait in my heart, and true,

Which traced the smile about that flower-like mouth,

And those gray eyes with just a doubt of blue,

Yet darkened with the passion of the South,

And the white arch of thoughtful forehead, crowned

With meeting waves of hair:—but still I found

Some undreamt light of tenderness that fell

From the new dawn, and made more fair to see

What was so fair, that now no song can tell

How lovely seemed thy heart-lit face to me.

George Logan Moore, A.B.

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