Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1628/The Happy Man

THE HAPPY MAN.

A PARAPHRASE.

Two sapphires are thy two blue eyes
⁠So lovely and so sweet;
Thrice happy is the happy man
⁠Whom lovingly they greet.

Thy heart, it is a diamond
⁠That noble lightning throws;
Thrice happy is the happy man
⁠For whom it throbs and glows.

And rubies are thy crimson lips,
⁠None lovelier might one reach;
Thrice happy is the happy man
⁠Who gets of them love-speech.

If I but knew the happy man.
⁠And met that favoured one
Alone, alone in the green woods.
⁠His happiness were done!

Tinsley's Magazine.⁠