NIGHT is dying, dawn is hieing
Through the darkness, while I wait
Underneath your window late,
Deeply dreaming, deeply sighing
For a vision fair and flying,
Fair as youth, and fleet as fate :
For this haunted dream of mine
Holds your image, Columbine.
In the sombre land of slumber
Lies the Earthly Paradise,
Where a girl with just your eyes
Moves in measures without number,
While the golden hours encumber
With their fairest flowers the shrine
Of our lady, Columbine.
Harlequinade
I will fiddle to your dancing
On my heart’s unhappy strings ;
Think myself the peer of kings
If but one of all your glances
Comes my way, as sometimes chances,
While you float in fairy rings,
Wholly human, half divine, .
Airy creature, Columbine.
Oh ! that I might wear the vizard
Of that rascal Harlequin
Miss you, kiss you, woo and win
So I would, were I a wizard :
For, by Venus’ doves, it is hard
That your heart will not incline
To your lover, Columbine.
(Justin H. McCarthy)
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