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MARRIAGE MORNING.

IGHT, so low upon earth,

You send a flash to the sun.

Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.

Oh, the woods and the meadows,
Woods where we hid from the wet,
Stiles where we stay'd to be kind,
Meadows in which we met !

Light, so low in the vale,

You flash and lighten afar,

For this is the golden morning of love, And you are his morning star.

Flash, I am coming, I come,

By meadow and stile and wood; Oh, lighten into my eyes and my heart, Into my heart and my blood!

Heart, are you great enough,

For a love that never tires?

O heart, are you great enough for love?
I have heard of thorns and briars.

Over the thorns and briars,

Over the meadows and stiles, Over the world to the end of it

Flash for a million miles.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

NE so fair-none so fair.
In her eyes so true

Love's most inner heaven bare
To the balmiest blue !

One so fair-none so fair.

In the skies no Star

Like my Star of Earth so near—
They but shine afar.

One so fair-none so fair.

All too sweet it seems; Wake me, not, O world of care, If I walk in dreams.

One so fair-none so fair.

O my bosom-guest,

Love ne'er smiled a happier pair
To the bridal-nest.

One so fair-none so fair.
Lean to me, sweet Wife;

Light will be the load we bear;

Two hearts in one life.

GERALD MASSEY.

JOHN ANDERSON'S ANSWER.

CANNOT kiss thee as I used to kiss ;

Time, who is lord of love, must answer this. Shall I believe thine eyes have grown less sweet? Nay, but my life-blood fails on heavier feet. Time goes, old girl, time goes.

I cannot hold as once I held thy hand;
Youth is a tree whose leaves fall light as sand.
Hast thou known many trees that shed them so?
Ay me, sweetheart, I know, ay me, I know.
Time goes, my bird, time goes.

I cannot love thee as I used to love.

Age comes, and little Love takes flight above.
If our eyes fail, have his the deeper glow?
I do not know, sweetheart, I do not know.
Time goes, old girl, time goes.