To shed her tender moonbeams o'er the night;

Thou who hast placed the islands in the sea,

With that same Wisdom, Father, lead Thou me.

THE RUINED CABIN

There's a pathos in the solemn desolation

Of the mountain cabin sinking in decay,

With its threshold overgrown with vegetation,

With its door unhinged and mouldering away.

There's a weird and most disconsolate expression

In the sashless windows with their vacant stare,