Dear Maid, this truth believe,
Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive.
Be pleased that nature made thee fit
To feed my heart’s devotion, 10
By laws to which all Forms submit
In sky, air, earth, and ocean.
“WHAT HEAVENLY SMILES! O LADY MINE”
Composed 1845.—Published 1845
One of the “Poems founded on the Affections.”—Ed.