Morning arose, and from their dreams,

Awoke the slumbering flowers;

Red glowed the hill-tops in her beams,

Her crest lay glittering on the streams,

And on one cot her gayest gleams

Broke in warm golden showers.

A pair of eyes had oped that morn,

Eyes soft and sweet and blue;

A poor, weak, helpless thing forlorn,

Beneath that humble roof was born,