. Pictures in verse. Alas, the darling!—How could I Tell her the thought?—It touchd me so To think how—were she but to dieBefore she learnd it all, you know. 37 A PHASE OF THE ANGELIC. T WONDER not that artists hands, Inspired by themes of joy To picture forms of angel-bands, Are moved to paint the boy. I know, if I the task were given To lure a mans desiresBy what appears the nearest heaven When most his thought aspires, I would not take a blushing bride, For she may wed for pelf;Nor him who clasps her to his side, He may but love himself; Nor matron, with her thoughts confinedTo precepts pre
. Pictures in verse. Alas, the darling!—How could I Tell her the thought?—It touchd me so To think how—were she but to dieBefore she learnd it all, you know. 37 A PHASE OF THE ANGELIC. T WONDER not that artists hands, Inspired by themes of joy To picture forms of angel-bands, Are moved to paint the boy. I know, if I the task were given To lure a mans desiresBy what appears the nearest heaven When most his thought aspires, I would not take a blushing bride, For she may wed for pelf;Nor him who clasps her to his side, He may but love himself; Nor matron, with her thoughts confinedTo precepts preachd to youth ; Nor man mature: too oft his mindIs closed to others truth. 38 A PHASE OF THE ANGELIC. 39 But I would blend the purity Of her whom I adoreWith manly power for mastery And promise yet in store. ^^.. ^^r. So I would take the boy who roams- Toward life, * half understood, From thresholds of those holy homesThat face alone the good ;— 40 A PHASE OF THE ANGELIC. A boy who has not reachd the brinkWhere vice will cross his track, Whose wish that loathes the wish to drinkStill keeps the tempter back;— A boy who hardly knows of ill, Or ill can apprehend,With cheeks that blush, with eyes that fill, And faith that fears no end. And oh, I know that those who love The purest part of joy,Would choose with me from all above The heaven that held my boy.
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