1.38 ESTRANGEMENT. 
LOTUS. 
Lotos. 
Language — ESTRANGEMENT. 
Alas ! how light a cause may move 
Dissension between hearts that love! — 
Hearts that the world in vain has tried, 
And sorrow but more closely tied ; 
That stood the storm when waves were rough, 
Yet in a sunny hour fall off, 
Like ships that have gone down at sea, 
When heaven was all tranquillity! 
A something light as air — a look — 
A word unkind, or wrongly taken ; 
0, love that tempests never shook, 
A breath, a touch, like this hath broken. 
IIOORR. 
O ye, who, meeting, sigh to part, 
Whose words are treasures to some heart, 
Deal gently, ere the dark days come 
When earth hath but for one a home; 
Lest, musing o’er the past, like me, 
They feel their hearts wrung bitterly ; 
And, heeding not what else is heard, 
Dwell weeping on a careless word. 
Mr9. Norton. 
