CUSHLO-MO-CHREE. For by the voice of woods and brooks, Sweet Spirit of my love! Hadst pass'd and left thy beauty's tints: And light and shade flash mystic hints. And clasp thee, Sweet! with large surprise. CUSHLO-MO-CHREE, 1 Gerald Massey. By the green banks of Shannon, I wooed thee, dear Mary, Summer like winter is cheerless to me; I heed not if snow falls, or flow'rets are springing, 1" Cushlo-mo-chree "-Pulse of my heart. Oh! bright shone the morning, when first as my bride, love, Thy foot like a sunbeam my threshold cross'd o'er; And blest on our hearth fell that soft eventide, love, Restlessly now, on my lone pillow turning, Wear the night-watches, still thinking on thee, For my aching eyes find thee not, Cushlo-mo-chree! CUSHLO-MO-CHREE. Oh, my loved one! my lost one! say, why didst thou leave me To linger on earth with my heart in the grave? Oh, would thy cold arms, love, might ope to receive me Evermore seeking, my own bride, for thee; Oh, Mary! wherever thou art is my home, love, John Francis Waller, LL.D. THE SCULPTOR. Do not die, Phene-I am yours now-you Are mine now-let Fate reach me how she likes, Your chin-no, last your throat turns-'t is their scent Pulls down my face upon you! Nay, look ever You by me, Thank God! And I by you-this is your hand in mine- -O, my life to come! My Tydeus must be carved, that's there in clay; This room-full of rough block-work seemed my heaven Without you! Shall I ever work again Get fairly into my old ways again Bid each conception stand while, trait by trait, My hand transfers its lineaments to stone? Will my mere fancies live near you, my truth THE SCULPTOR. The live truth-passing and repassing me Sitting beside me? Now speak! Only, first, See, all your letters! Was 't not well contrived? Their hiding-place is Psyche's robe; she keeps Again those eyes complete Bistre and azure by Bessarion's scribe- A bitter shaft" . . . a flower blots out the rest! I thought you would have seen that here you sit Naked upon her bright Numidian horse! Recall you this, then? "Carve in bold relief" |