Besides, what vexid us worse, we knew, They have no need of such as you In the place where you were going: This World has angels all too few, And Heaven is overflowing! SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL. Written in Germany. IF I had but two little wings, And were a little feathery bird, But thoughts like these are idle things, But in my sleep to you I fly : I'm always with you in my sleep; The world is all one's own. But then one wakes, and where am I? Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids: For though my sleep be gone, Yet, while 'tis dark, one shuts one's lids, And still dreams on. HOME-SICK. Written in Germany. "Tis sweet to him, who all the week And sweet it is, in summer bower, Sincere, affectionate and gay, One's own dear children feasting round, But what is all, to his delight, Who having long been doom'd to roam, Throws off the bundle from his back, Before the door of his own home? Home-sickness is a wasting pang; This feel I hourly more and more: There's Healing only in thy wings, Thou Breeze that play'st on Albion's shore! ANSWER TO A CHILD's QUESTION. Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings; and for ever sings he→→→→ "I love my Love, and my Love loves me!" THE VISIONARY HOPE. SAD lot, TO HAVE NO HOPE! Tho' lowly kneeling, He strove in vain! the dull sighs from his chest Tho' Nature forc'd; tho' like some captive guest, Tho' obscure pangs made curses of his dreams, And dreaded sleep, each night repell'd in vain, Each night was scatter'd by its own loud screams: Yet never could his heart command, tho' fain, One deep full wish to be no more in pain. That HOPE, which was his inward bliss and boast, Which wan'd and died, yet ever near him stood, |