The loneliness is all my own!”

“Love, this is autumn now, you know;

To other lands the wild birds go—

They only rest in summer bower,

And only stay while lasts the flower;

But, Helen, not thus let it be

With all this love that binds us now;

In winter, bare will be the tree,

No bird will sing upon the bough—

But see where I have taught the beech,