James Jessamine.
LOVE’S ELYSIUM.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF MATTHISSON BY WILLIAM PITT PALMER.
Grove! embathed in peace celestial,
As in dew the rose’s bowers,
Where Hesperia’s golden fruitage
Ripens amid silver flowers;
Where a rosy-colored ether
Ever cloudless bends above,
Through whose calm abysses never