I kissed thee, panting, and, I call
Night to the record! that was all.
But, ah! if empty dreams so please,
Love give me more such nights as these.
57. DREAMS.
Here we are all by day; by night we're hurl'd
By dreams, each one into a sev'ral world.
58. AMBITION.
In man ambition is the common'st thing;
Each one by nature loves to be a king.
59. HIS REQUEST TO JULIA.
Julia, if I chance to die
Ere I print my poetry,
I most humbly thee desire
To commit it to the fire:
Better 'twere my book were dead
Than to live not perfected.
60. MONEY GETS THE MASTERY.
Fight thou with shafts of silver and o'ercome,
When no force else can get the masterdom.
61. THE SCARE-FIRE.
Water, water I desire,
Here's a house of flesh on fire;
Ope the fountains and the springs,
And come all to bucketings:
What ye cannot quench pull down;
Spoil a house to save a town:
Better 'tis that one should fall,
Than by one to hazard all.
Scare-fire, fire-alarm.
