IN THREE DAYS. 1. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, 2. Too long, this time of year, the days! at least the nights are short. But nights As night shows where her one moon is, O loaded curls, release your store The tingling hair did, lights and darks What great fear should one say, "Three days That change the world, might change as well Be happy that no worse befell." "Three days and one short night beside With an end somewhere undescried." No fear! or if a fear be born This minute, it dies out in scorn. Fear? I shall see her in three days 3. When I sewed or drew, I recall How he looked as if I sang, - Sweetly too. If I spoke a word, First of all Up his cheek the color sprang, Then he heard. 4. Sitting by my side, At my feet, So he breathed the air I breathed, Satisfied! I, too, at love's brim Touched the sweet: I would die if death bequeathed Sweet to him. 5. "Speak, I love thee best!" He exclaimed. "Let thy love my own foretell,—” I confessed: "Clasp my heart on thine Now unblamed, Since upon thy soul as well Hangeth mine! " |