IX. No reply. The fountain's warble So my heart falls with a moan To this dying. Death forerunneth Love to win 'Sweetest eyes, were ever seen.' X. Will you come? When I'm departed Love is over! Cry, beneath the cypress green, 'Sweetest eyes, were ever seen!' ΧΙ. When the angelus is ringing, Near the convent will you walk, And recall the choral singing Which brought angels down our talk ? Spirit-shriven I viewed Heaven, Till you smiled-'Is earth unclean, 'Sweetest eyes, were ever seen?' XII. When beneath the palace-lattice 'Here Will you oftly Murmur softly, ye watched me morn and e'en, Sweetest eyes, were ever seen!' XIII. When the palace-ladies, sitting Round your gittern, shall have said, 'Poet, sing those verses written For the lady who is dead,' Will you tremble Yet dissemble, Or sing hoarse, with tears between, 'Sweetest eyes, were ever seen?' XIV. 'Sweetest eyes!' how sweet in flowings The repeated cadence is! Though you sang a hundred poems, Still the best one would be this. "Twixt my spirit And the earth-noise intervene 'Sweetest eyes, were ever seen XV. But the priest waits for the praying, Strains more solemn-high than these. For the weary! Oh, no longer for Catrine 'Sweetest eyes, were ever seen!' XVI. Keep my riband, take and keep it, Watch unfaintly Out of heaven shall o'er you lean 'Sweetest eyes, were ever seen.' XVII. But-but now-yet unremovëd May be praises For some fairer bosom-queen-- * Sbe left him the riband from her hair. XVIII. Eyes of mine, what are ye doing? Besides coldness, If unworthy tears demean XIX. I will look out to his future; Unto sweeter eyes than mine, Angels shield them, Whatsoever eyes terrene Be the sweetest HIS have seen! VOL. III. N LIFE AND LOVE. I. FAST this Life of mine was dying, II. Love came by, and having known her Gently stooped, and laid upon her III. Drew his smile across her folded Eyelids, as the swallow dips; Breathed as finely as the cold did, Through the locking of her lips. IV. So, when Life looked upward, being Warmed and breathed on from above, What sight could she have for seeing, Evermore... but only LOVE? |