List’ning to the music the spring birds made;

When sweeter by far than the birds on the tree,

A voice murmured near her, “Oh! come, Love, with me—

In earth or air,

A thing so fair

I have not seen as thee!

Then come, Love, with me.”

“With a star for thy home, in a palace of light,

Thou will add a fresh grace to the beauty of night;

Or, if wealth be thy wish, thine are treasures untold,