Who will be all in all to me on earth,

Sheathing my soul against the edge of pain,

Even till I seem to dwell in paradise,

With thee my Eve, and we may need no fall.

See, fairy spring hath walked upon the hills,

Where her foot-prints are green and flowers appear;

The turtle coos within our pleasant land.

Oh! now I throb to be by thy sweet side,

To sun me in the sweet spring of that smile

Which warms the beauties of my mind to birth.