"With hand on laiCh, a vision white 



Lingered reluctant, and again 

 Half doubting if she did aright, 

 Soft as the dews that fell that night, 



She said, — ' Auf wiedersehen ! ' 



" The lamp's clear gleam flits up the stair 



I linger in delicious pain ; 

 Ah, in that chamber, whose rich air 

 To breathe in thought I scarcely dare, 



Thinks she, — ' Auf wiedersehen ! ' 



"'Tis thirteen years; once more 1 press 

 The turf that silences the lane ; 

 I hear the rustle of her dress, 

 I smell the lilac, and — ah, yes, 

 I hear — ■ Auf wiedersehen ! ' 



" Sweet piece of bashful maiden art ! 



The English words had seemed too fain, 

 But these — they drew us heart to heart. 

 Yet held us tenderly apart ; y. 



She said, — ' Auf wiedersehen ! ' " 



In his poem " Al Fresco " he mentions 

 one of the favourite tenants of the 

 h'lac, — 



" The Robin sings, as of old, from the limb I 

 The catbird croons from the lilac-bush ! 

 Through the dim arbor, himself more dim, 

 Silently hops the hermit-thrush." 



The name lilac is derived from the 

 Persian Ulag, which signifies a flower, 

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