Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time;

Say not good night, but in some brighter clime

Bid me good-morning.”

DESTINY.

Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down

Each with its loveliness as with a crown,

Drooped in a florist’s window in a town.

The first a lover bought. It lay at rest,

Like snow on snow, that night, on beauty’s breast.