DISILLUSION.
Those unrequited in their love who die
Have never drained life's chief illusion dry.
SUCCESS.
Success allures us in the earth and skies:
We seek to win her, but, too amorous,
Mocking, she flees us.—Haply, were we wise,
We would not strive and she would come to us.
SCIENCE.
Miranda-like, above the world she waves
The wand of Prospero; and, beautiful,
Ariel the airy, Caliban the dull,—
Lightning and steam,—are her unwilling slaves.
ECHO.
Dweller in hollow places, hills and rocks,
Daughter of Silence and old Solitude,
Tip-toe she stands within her cave or wood,
Her only life the noises that she mocks.