PEA, SWEET 
“On tiptoe for a Flight.” 
Oh! would I were only a spirit of song! 
I’d float forever around, above you: 
If I were a spirit, it wouldn’t be wrong, 
It couldn't be wrong, to love you! 
I’d hide in the light of a moonbeam bright, 
I’d sing Love’s lullaby softly o’er you, 
I’d bring rare visions of pure delight 
From the land of dreams before you. 
Oh! if I were only a spirit of song, 
I’d float forever around, above you, 
For a musical spirit could never do wrong, 
And it wouldn't be wrong to love you! 
F. S. O. 
IF WISHES WERE WINGS! 
If I were a bird that sings, 
In the joy of a spirit free— 
If wishes were only wings , 
How soon I would be with thee! 
As the lark soars at sunrise alone, 
While the air with his rapture rings, 
Thy smile I would meet, mine own, 
If wishes were only wings! 
’Tis only when sorrow like this 
A shade o’er my spirit flings, 
’Tis only when thee I miss, 
That I wish my wishes were wings! 
F. S. O. 
