For works with similar titles, see Impromptu.
IMPROMTU
ON AN
ENGRAVING OF THE BETROTHED SPIRITS.
Hist! 'tis faint music swelleth on the air;
And, by the glow-worm light, a Pageant fair,
With myrtle chaplets 'mid their locks entwined,
Float softly by, like the sweet song of nightingales combined.
And, by the glow-worm light, a Pageant fair,
With myrtle chaplets 'mid their locks entwined,
Float softly by, like the sweet song of nightingales combined.
Spirits of the betrothed! freed from the thrall
Of the dull earth! Pure as ere woman's fall;
Their love all spiritual. With gentle smile,
Backwards they cast their eyes, and murmur, dear ones, yet awhile!
Of the dull earth! Pure as ere woman's fall;
Their love all spiritual. With gentle smile,
Backwards they cast their eyes, and murmur, dear ones, yet awhile!
Glide on thou purely beautiful! thy forms
Float in mid ether—calm above the storms
Of thy heart's tempest; whilst, with streaming eyes.
Thy earth-bound lovers kneel, and mourn thy progress through the skies.
Float in mid ether—calm above the storms
Of thy heart's tempest; whilst, with streaming eyes.
Thy earth-bound lovers kneel, and mourn thy progress through the skies.