As a king’s children gather’d for the hour
Of some high festival! Exultingly,
And kindred-like, and godlike, on they pass—
The glorious, wandering shapes! aged and young,
Proud men and royal women! Lo! my race—
My sire’s ancestral race!
RECORDS OF THE SPRING OF 1834.
[These sonnets, written in the months of April, May, and June, were intended, together with the Records of the Autumn of 1834, to form a continuation of the series entitled “Sonnets, Devotional and Memorial.”]
A VERNAL THOUGHT.
O festal Spring! midst thy victorious glow,