NEW POEMS
To each her emblem whisper sure
Love was awake an hour before.
Ah yes! an hour before ye woke
Low to my heart my emblem spoke,
And grave, as to renew an oath,
It I have kissed and blessed you both.
CLXV
AIR OF DIABELLI'S[1]
CALL it to mind, O my love,
Dear were your eyes as the day,
Bright as the day and the sky;
Like the stream of gold and the sky above.
Dear were your eyes in the grey
We have lived, my love, O, we have lived, my love!
Now along the silent river, azure
Through the sky's inverted image
Softly swam the boat that bore our love,
Swiftly ran the shallow of our love
Through the heaven's inverted image
In the reedy mazes round the river.
See along the silent river,
See of old the lover's shallop steer.
Berried brake and reedy island,
Heaven below and only heaven above.
- ↑ Diabelli, an Austrian composer who died in 1858.
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