Such a change, every ripple seemed laughing and glad,

Such a dazzling and glancing of golden and blue,

I wondered it e'er could seem slumbering or sad.

"Sweet, when I had met thee the charms were united,

The snow of that morn of that evening the glow

On thy cheek and thy brow,—Oh, I would they were plighted

To me, as they were 'twixt the sun and the snow!

"And the laughter of ocean I saw in thine eyes,

When a light from within had enkindled the flame,—

How I wished I knew what might be worthy the prize