All things a brightness and a joy impart;
And earth’s harmonious melodies have been
Rivaled but by the voice they wake within.
“The skies bend fondly o’er me; the pure air
Steals to my temples with a holy kiss;
The bright stars watch me with a kindly care;
And flowers, and streams, and birds, and winds express
Their mingled joy, around, beneath, above,
In tones whose chorus and whose freight is Love.
“Love! Life’s gemmed key-stone! being’s single source!