To pass, nor leave behind her blight.

Fearless the eyes, and full of thought,

As though Life's secret fain she'd know;

Grace, of a wildness all untrained,

Wraps her within its subtile glow.

And, as she treads her way a-field

I know she seeks me, me alone!

O child! my heart grows weak, to-night,

To stifle now its secret moan!

What will ye bring her, Love and Life?