180 SPRING-TIDE. 



unable to accompany you to the water- 

 side, I will look for your return at night- 

 fall, and hear you recount your success. 



,7. May that time be yet far distant ! 



S, But it must come at last. When 

 it does, let me be prepared. Thank God, 

 I can contemplate the approach of that state 

 serenely. Even should sight be obscured, 

 I shall yet look forward to the approach of 

 Spring, and be awakened by the matin song 

 of the swallow on my chimney, and hear 



the yellow banded bees 



Through half-opened lattices 

 Coming in the scented breeze. 



Should hearing also fail, I can still feel the 

 gales of Spring, while the glorious sun will 

 not disdain to shine upon my grey hairs. 

 But should this, too, be denied me, I will 

 not repine ; for, to use the words of one 

 whose works you must have read " to be 

 true and speak my soul, when I survey the 

 occurrences of my life, and call into account 



