His love-song to the morn,

I have seen the dew-drops clinging,

To the rose just newly born;

But a sweeter song has cheered me,

At the evening’s gentle close,

I have seen an eye still brighter,

Than the dew-drops on the rose—

’Twas thy voice, my gentle Mary,

And thine artless, winning smile,

That made this world an Eden,