Poetry. A Letter My Love! A Song!

The Unionist 1834-04-10

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POETRY.

A LETTER, MY LOVE! A SONG.

A Letter, my Love! Oh, send to me

One blessed thought, or a word from thee,

And my heart with joy shall swell,

Like the ocean wave, when over its foam,

From Araby’s spice laden vales doth roam

A breath of the bliss of its fairy home

In murm’ring tones to tell.

A Letter, my Love! Oh, send to me

One blessed thought, or a word from thee,

And with joy my heart shall swell.

A Letter, my Love! that shall breathe they name

To prove thou art fondly and truly the same,

And say but “I am well;”

To bring sweets from thy lip, and the balm of thy sigh,

The blush of thy cheek, and the flash of thine eye!

I’ll think thou are present and sorrow shall fly,

While wrapped in fancy’s spell.

A Letter, my Love! Oh, send to me

One blessed thought, or a word from thee,

And with joy my heart shall swell.

A Letter, my Love! and mem’ry shall trace

Yet deeper the thought of that hallowed place

Where first we loved so well;

And every word thou hast spoken shall be

More carefully treasured and worshipped by me,

Than the purest of pearls by the maid of the sun

When she sings to her tuneful shell.

A Letter, my Love! Oh, send to me

One blessed thought, or a word from thee,

And with joy my heart shall swell.