Whose songs should syllable thy name! At noon

We'd sit beneath the arching vines, and wonder

Why Earth could be unhappy, while the heavens

Still left us youth and love! We'd have no friends

That were not lovers; no ambition, save

To excel them all in love; we'd have no books

That were not tales of love,—that we might smile

To think how poorly eloquence of words

Translates the poetry of hearts like ours!

And when night came, amidst the breathless heavens