. Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness." He ceased. Ere long the sun declining shot Upon those silent walls, we left the shade; "MY HEART LEAPS UP.” My heart leaps up when I behold Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man; TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near me do not take thy flight! A little longer stay in sight! Much converse do I find in Thee, Historian of my Infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay Creature as thou art ! A solemn image to my heart, My Father's Family! Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My Sister Emmeline and I Together chased the Butterfly! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey :—with leaps and springs THE SPARROW'S NEST. BEHOLD, within the leafy shade, The home and sheltered bed, The Sparrow's dwelling, which, hard by My Father's house, in wet or dry Together visited. She looked at it as if she feared it; She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And love, and thought, and joy. |