HARTLEY COLERIDGE

QOOH 2AMOHT

Early 'Death

CHE pass'd away like morning dew

• T Before the sun was high ;

So brief her time, she scarcely knew The meaning of a sigh.

As round the rose its soft perfume, Sweet love around her floated;

Admired she grew while mortal doom Crept on, unfear'd, unnoted.

Love was her guardian Angel here, But Love to Death resigned her;

Tho' Love was kind, why should we fear But holy Death is kinder ?

��646. Friendship

VVTHEN we were idlers with the loitering rills,

• ^ The need of human love we little noted:

Our love was nature ; and the peace that floated On the white mist, and dwelt upon the hills, To sweet accord subdued our wayward wills :

One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted,

That, wisely doting, ask'd not why it doted, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to me;

That man is more than half of nature's treasure, Of that fair beauty which no eye can see,

Of that sweet music which no ear can measure;

And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity.

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