To the blue heav'n and flies.

We never shall meet, love,

Except in the skies!

[TO ——]

Welcome, dear Heart, and a most kind good-morrow;

The day is gloomy, but our looks shall shine:—

Flowers I have none to give thee, but I borrow

Their sweetness in a verse to speak for thine.

Here are red roses, gather'd at thy cheeks,—

The white were all too happy to look white: