An arch for the triumph of youth and love!

II.

Still and sweet was the home that stood

In the flowering depths of a Grecian wood,

With the soft green light o’er its low roof spread,

As if from the glow of an emerald shed,

Pouring through lime-leaves that mingled on high,

Asleep in the silence of noon’s clear sky.

Citrons amidst their dark foliage glow’d,

Making a gleam round the lone abode;