When, smitten by the morning ray, Then, chearful Flower! my spirits play With kindred motion : At dusk, I've seldom mark'd thee press And all day long I number yet, To thee am owing; An instinct call it, a blind sense; A happy, genial influence, Coming one knows not how nor whence, 60 70 Child of the Year! that round dost run Thy course, bold lover of the sun, And chearful when the day's begun Thou long the Poet's praise shalt gain ; In times to come; thou not in vain LOUISA. I met Louisa in the shade; And, having seen that lovely Maid, That she is ruddy, fleet, and strong; And she hath smiles to earth unknown; That come and go with endless play, And ever, as they pass away, Are hidden in her eyes. 10 She loves her fire, her Cottage-home; Yet o'er the moorland will she roam And when against the wind she strains, Oh! might I kiss the mountain rains Take all that's mine "beneath the moon," If I with her but half a noon May sit beneath the walls Of some old cave, or mossy nook, When up she winds along the brook, 20 |