Of Paradise; or list the moving strains

Of Eden’s harps; or revel in the light

Of gems that glisten on celestial plains,

Did we but bend more anxious ear and eye,

And learn to ope the heart-cells where they lie.

Yet Eva listened; for her steps had trod,

Fearless of clouds that rose her pathway o’er,

Closer than some do to the walks of God;

And, in her own warm heart, she ever bore

A flowing urn, from whence a balm was shed