I.
Whiten, O whiten, ye clouds of fleece!
Whiten like lilies floating above,
Blown wild about like a flock of white geese!
But never, O never; so cease! so cease!
Never as white as the throat of my love!
II.
Blue-black night on the mountain peaks,
Blacker the locks of my maiden love!
Silvery star ‘mid the evening streaks
Over the torrent that flashes and breaks,
Brighter the eyes of my laughing love!
III.
Horn of a new moon golden ‘mid gold,
Broken, fluted in the tarn’s close skies;
Shattered and beaten, wave-like and cold,
Crisper my love’s locks fold on fold,
Cooler and brighter where dreaming she lies!
IV.
Silvery star o’er the precipice snow,
Mist in the vale where the rivulet sings,
Dropping from ledge to ledge below,
Where we stood in the roseate glow,
Softer the voice of her whisperings!
V.
Sound o’ May winds in the blossoming trees,
Sweeter the breeze my love’s breath brings!
Song of wild birds on the morning breeze,
Song o’ wild birds and murmur o’ wild bees,
Sweeter my love’s voice when she sings!
VI.
To the star of dawning bathed with dew,
Blow, moony Sylph, your bugle of gold!
Blow thro’ the hyaline over the blue,
Blow from the sunset the morning lands thro’,
Let the star of love of our love be told!
(Madison Julius Cawein)
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