Wandering Thoughts [pp. 272]

Wandering Thoughts.
tol is less than the Capitol that the lesser common enemy." Mr. Ellery's sagacity
ought not to dictate to the larger, and calln help to explain this last Enigma, if
more especially as the " Alliance not you should find any difficulty in the thing
being victorious, cannot give law to the yourself.
WANDERING THOUGIITS.
You ask me where my truant thoughts
Are straying, while I sit and sew?
You call my face an "April day,
Changing with all the winds that blow."
Ah! would you, darling, know the cause
Of every shade that darkens there?
The matter for a flying smile,
The fountain of a sudd(l(len tear.
Well-first I watch this quiet spot
With fadting day-beams purpled o'er,
And think how often I have seen
The daylight dying here before.
And gazing on those western hills
I think beyond them, far away,
Sweet eyes, (]ear eyes, undimmed by tears
May watch like mine, departing day.
But ah! the slanting sunbeamns fall
On sadder things than friendly eyes,
On graves, that never yet before
Grewv greet beneath bright summer skies!
Oh! small wild flowers, upspringing there,
Keep gentle guard o'er lonely rest!
And forest birds of brooding note,
Si,ng softly by your shaded nest!
For there, the dearest hopes are laitd,
That ever thrilled a warim, young heart, Hopes that no more, in sun or shade,
Can into life and beauty start!
Ali! seek no more to guess my thoughts,
Nor follow where they set in gloom,
They leave the gayest scenes of mirth,
To linger'round a lonely tomb.
J-.
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