TOO wearily had we and song

Been left to look and left to long,

Yea, song and we to long and look,

Since thine acquainted feet forsook

The mountain where the Muses hymn

For Sinai and the Seraphim.

Now in both the mountains' shine

Dress thy countenance, twice divine !

From Moses and the Muses draw

The Tables of thy double Law !

His rod-born fount and Cast al y

Let the one rock bring forth for thee,

Renewing so from either spring

The songs which both thy countries sing:

Or we snall fear lest, heavened thus long,

Thou shbuld'st forget thy native song,

And mar thy mortai mélodies

With broken stammer of the skies.

Ah! let the sweet birds of the Lord

With earth's waters make accord ;

Teach how the crucifix may be

Carven from the laurei-tree,

Fruit of the Hesperides

Burnish take on Eden-trees,

The Muses' sacred grove be wet

With the red dew of Olivet,

And Sappho lay her burning brows

In white Cecilias lap of snows !

I think thv girlhood's watchers must

Have took thy folded songs on trust,

And felt them, as one feels the stir

Of still lightnings in the hair,

When conscious hush expects the cloud

To speak the golden secret loud

Which tacit air is privy to;

Flasked in the grape the wine they knew,

Ere thy poet-mouth was able

For its first young starry babble.

Keep'st thou not yet that subtle grace?

Yea, in this silent interspace,

God sets His poems in thy face!

The loom which mortal verse affords,

Out of weak and mortal words,

Wovest thou thy singing-weed in,

To a rune of thy far Eden.

Vain are all disguises! Ah,

Heavenly incognita!

Thy mien bewrayeth through that wrong

The great Uranian House of Song!

As the vintages of earth

Taste of the sun that riped their birth,

We know what never-cadeht Sun

Thy lamped clusters throbbed upon,

What plumed feet the winepress trod;

Thy wine is flavorous of God.

Whatever singing-robe thou wear

Has the Paradisal air;

And some gold feather it has kept

Shows what Floor it lately swept.