In a calmer day of bliss.”

Then I cried, “Dear maid! what day

Can be half so sweet as this?

Throw not hopes and joys away;

Send, oh, send the promised kiss!

Can so bright a gift be mine,

Bought without a pang of pain?

’Tis perchance a ray divine,

Darker night to bring again.

“Could I dwell on such a thought,