LINKS TO MARGARET. 



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1 yearn for thee, with a repining love 

 That nought may quench — for thou art Beauty's own : 

 Thine is the grace that cometh from above : 

 There is a spiritual music in thy tone 

 Of voice, and thou art bound on Eloquence' bright throne. 



Sweet looks, and winning ways, are ever thine ; 

 And magic, like a loadstone, lights thine eye : 

 Those delicate lips hold melody divine ; 

 And soul and thought sit on thy forehead high, 

 And thou art all attired in love and harmony ! 



A song as of a seraph comes from thee, 

 Thou walkest like a Naiad to her love,- 

 Or as a sylph from some enchanted tree : 

 Thy golden locks hang down thy neck, and rove 

 Along thy breast, and sleep upon thy bosom's move. 



Seldom, on earth, we view such forms as thine ! 

 Nor, save in blessed dreams of silent night, 

 Glides aught before our vision so divine. 

 For heaven alone is left for things so bright. 

 And mortal eye can gaze not on the lustrous light. 



And what availeth all my longing here, 

 This yearning phantasy, and dark despair ? 

 i ne'er may breathe my passion in thine ear, 

 Nor watch each wish, nor soothe each trace of care. 

 Nor press thee to my breast — who art so very fair ! 



Yet. all must love thee ! In the eloquent blood 

 That swells each azure vein ; in every sigh ; 

 In look, in word, in grace of womanhood. 

 Lie charms to win each ear, and glad each eye, 

 A spell for earthly trust, for truth and poetry. 



Again Farewell — far o'er the sounding sea 

 Once more I sigh farewell ! The passing year, . 

 Nor Time, nor change can tear my heart from thee. 

 And though thou mayst not bless my dwelling here. 

 We yet shall meet again, and in a loftier sphere. 



A heavenly home, where sorrow cannot be ; 

 Where grief, nor care, nor human passion dwell : 

 There white-rob'd in thy glory I shall see 

 That qiieenlike shape, that form majestical. 

 And we no more shall part — again, — again— farewell ! 



Gainsborough, Yorkshire, Nov. 12. J. W. Ord. 



M.M.— 3. T 



