The children laughed so when they saw his eyes.

Into the world a rosy hand in doubt

He reached;—a pale hand took the rosebud out.

“And that was all,—quite all?” Ho, surely! But

The children cried so when his eyes were shut.

Patientia

Toil on, O troubled brain,

With anxious thoughts and busy scenes opprest,

Ere long release shall reach thee. A brief pain!

Then—rest!