’Twas but the embers crumbling in the grate,

Loud on the icy Night. Awakened so

Musing I stood to recollect, and lo!

My lips had formed to prayer.—

Then thro’ the gloom I gat me to my sleep.

TO A THRUSH

Singing one Spring morn ’mid deepest fog

Throstle-bird!

I have heard

This thy voice of cheer,