Love Everywhere.

Love knoweth every form of air,
And every shape of earth,
And comes unbidden, everywhere,
Like thought's mysterious birth.
The moonlit sea and the sunset sky
Are written with Love's words,
And you hear his voice unceasingly,
Like song in the time of birds.

He peeps into the warrior's heart
From the tip of a stooping plume,

And the serried spears and the many men
May not deny him room.

He'll come to his tent in the weary night
And be busy in his dream;

And he 'll float to his eye in morning light
Like a fay on a silver beam.

He hears the sound of the hunter's gun,
And rides on the echo back,

And sighs in his ear, like a stirring leaf,

And flits in his woodland track.

The shade of the wood, and the sheen of the river, The cloud and the open sky,

He will haunt them all with his subtle quiver, Like the light of your very eye.

The fisher hangs over the leaning boat,

And ponders the silver sea,

For Love is under the surface hid,
And a spell of thought has he.

He heaves the wave like a bosom sweet,
And speaks in the ripple low,

Till the bait is gone from the crafty line,
And the hook hangs bare below.

He blurs the print of the scholar's book,
And intrudes in the maiden's prayer,
And profanes the cell of the holy man,
In the shape of a lady fair.

In the darkest night, and the bright day-light,
In earth, and sea, and sky,

In every home of human thought,

Will Love be lurking nigh.

N. P. WILLIS.

Remembrance.

I shall look back, when on the main, —

Back to my native isle,

And almost think I hear again

Thy voice, and view thy smile.

But many days may pass away,

Ere I again shall see

Amid the young, the fair, the gay,

One who resembles thee.

Yet when the pensive thought shall dwell

On some ideal maid,

Whom fancy's pencil pictured well,

And touched with softest shade,

The imaged form I shall survey,
And, pausing at the view,
Recall thy gentle smile, and say,
"Oh! such a maid I knew! "

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