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O Palma, if thou hearest,
Thou proud and princely tree,
Thou knowest that my Dearest
Is emblemed forth in thee—
My kingly Palm, my Dearest.
I am his Moon admiring,
His wooing Wind, his Star;
And I glory in desiring
My Palm-tree from afar—
Glad as happier lovers are,
Am happy in desiring.
Acapulco, Mexico, 1863.
EDITH.
"A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden to the eye,"
Sang Wordsworth of that English girl
Who pleased the poet's eye.
I sing of one, a garden rose,
Grown in a freer air
As modest as the violet
And many times more fair.
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