Verses.
Are your grave eyes graver growing ?1
Sweetheart, may I look,2
At the mighty thoughts which move you3
In the poet’s book ?4
Stay not in the lazy shade,5
With the drowsy roses,6
Come into the woods and see7
Where I find my posies.8
Has the buried singer left us9
Songs to make you weep ?10
Are you saddened by the sorrow11
That his numbers keep ?12
Or were all the songs he gave us13
Born in happy hours ?14
Come with me, he found his music15
Where I find my flowers.16
Where a little mossy pathway17
Lies beside the stream,18
Long ago the poet lingered ;19
Sun and pale star-beam20
Touched his lips, while there he wandered,21
Summer-time and spring,22
And the mighty woods and river23
Taught him how to sing.24