LINESAFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO MRS. D. W. G., BEFORE HER DEPARTURE FOR WASHINGTON.
LADY, here, where toil and pleasure
Alternate to pass the day,
I'll devote this hour of leisure;
Singing thee a simple lay.
Years have passed since our first meeting;
Well do I remember how
Thy voice, so rich, it filled in greeting
Me, dear lady, then, as now.
Alternate to pass the day,
I'll devote this hour of leisure;
Singing thee a simple lay.
Years have passed since our first meeting;
Well do I remember how
Thy voice, so rich, it filled in greeting
Me, dear lady, then, as now.
There are touching, aye, entrancing
Voices, lovely like a spell,
Charming all the hours, enhancing
Life wherever we may dwell:
Thou hast read of halcyon hours,
Hast thou never lived them there
In those quiet lovely bowers,
Blooming with delight so rare?
Voices, lovely like a spell,
Charming all the hours, enhancing
Life wherever we may dwell:
Thou hast read of halcyon hours,
Hast thou never lived them there
In those quiet lovely bowers,
Blooming with delight so rare?
Ah! the heart is ever longing,
Waiting for some coming joy;
What though ere the morrow's dawning,
Fate may all our dreams destroy:
Waiting for some coming joy;
What though ere the morrow's dawning,
Fate may all our dreams destroy:
