Beneath the very burden

Of [planet-pressing ocean]

We wash our smiling cheeks in peace, a thought for meek devotion.

Who shall say that flowers

Dress not heaven’s own bowers?

Who its love without them can fancy—or sweet floor?

Who shall even dare

To say we sprang not there,

And came not down, that Love might bring one piece of heaven the more?

Oh! pray believe that angels