As bright to light his pathway as the day.

Of course I could deny it; say I held

No key to spring the latch of love like hers.

Our lips, but parting e’en to speak of love,

Infringe on Cupid; and, before they shut,

Some tingling arrow of that jealous god

Will make them drop all soberness.

He laugh’d:

“Now say you never saw the sea, for waves;

Or stars, for twinkling; or the trees, for leaves;