it To hear a flute through yonder vale I from my casement lean. Oh! come, my love!' each note utters seems to say! 'Oh! come, my love! the night wears fast away!' No, ne'er to mortal ear Can words, though warm they be, Speak Passion's language half so clear As do those notes to me Then quick my own light lute I seek, And strike the chords with loudest swell; And though they nought to others speak, He knows their language well. THOUGH 'TIS ALL BUT A DREAM. French Air. THOUGH 'tis all but a dream at the best, Yet, even in a dream to be blessed And still when happiest soonest o'er, Is so sweet, that I ask for no more. The bosom that opes with earliest hopes, As flowers that first in spring-time burst, The soonest finds those hopes untrue, The earliest wither too! Ay-'tis all but a dream, &c. By friendship we oft are deceived, And find the love we clung to past; Yet friendship will still be believed, And love trusted on to the last. She spins the bright tissue again. TIS WHEN THE CUP IS SMILING. | Was it for this that her shout Thrilled to the world's very core? Thus to live cowards and slaves, Oh! ye free hearts that lie dead! Do you not, e'en in your graves, Shudder, as o'er you we tread? NE'ER TALK OF WISDOM'S GLOOMY SCHOOLS. Mahratta Air. ; NE'ER talk of Wisdom's gloomy schools; And is gone again next minute. The grape's own rosy daughter! And none can prize her charms like him, Oh! none like him obtain her, Who thus can, like Leander, swim Through sparkling floods to gain her! Fondly I looked, when the wizard had | And though as Time gathers his clouds o'er our head, A shade somewhat darker o'er life they may spread, Transparent, at least, be the shadow they cast, So that Love's softened light may shine through to the last. OH, GUARD OUR AFFECTION. Он, guard our affection, nor e'er let it feel The blight that this world o'er the warmest will steal: While the faith of all round us is fading or past, Let ours, ever green, keep its bloom to the last. Far safer for Love 'tis to wake and to weep, As he used in his prime, than go smiling to sleep; For death on his slumber, cold death follows fast, While the love that is wakeful lives on to the last. BRING THE BRIGHT GARLANDS HITHER. BRING the bright garlands hither, Ours be their last sweet sighing. Bring all that yet is ours; Let life's day, as it closes, Shine to the last through flowers. Haste, ere the bowl's declining, |