The morning sea that flushes far and near,

Is thine, O trembling globulet of spray,

Because, forsooth, his image, glass’d in all

The sea and world, is glass’d, as well, in thee!—

Fool, fool! yet dear, dear folly!

These my thoughts;

My words—all I recall now—came at last

When slowly sauntering back we reach’d her home.

“Would God,” I sigh’d, “the time might come for us,

When, looking toward the future now so lone,