I dare to look thy way, and bow my head

To thy sweet name, as sunflower to the sun,

Though, peradventure, not so wisely fed

With garden fancies. Tears must now be shed,

Unnumber'd tears, till life or love be done!


XIII.
A THUNDERSTORM AT NIGHT.

The lightning is the shorthand of the storm

That tells of chaos; and I read the same

As one may read the writing of a name,—