Nor eyes half so tenderly bright.”

It is all as I knew it would happen,

Yet, no; there is something I miss—

The eloquent words I intended

To speak in a moment like this.

They were tender, and soft, and poetic,

And I thought, “As I timidly speak,

She will smile, and a blush sympathetic

Will crimson the rose in her cheek.”

And now that we sit here together,