V.

With A flower.

When roses cease to bloom, dear,
  And violets are done,
When bumble-bees in solemn flight
  Have passed beyond the sun,

The hand that paused to gather
  Upon this summer’s day
Will idle lie, in Auburn, —­
  Then take my flower, pray!

VI.

Song.

Summer for thee grant I may be
  When summer days are flown! 
Thy music still when whippoorwill
  And oriole are done!

For thee to bloom, I’ll skip the tomb
  And sow my blossoms o’er! 
Pray gather me, Anemone,
  Thy flower forevermore!

VII.

Loyalty.

Split the lark and you’ll find the music,
  Bulb after bulb, in silver rolled,
Scantily dealt to the summer morning,
  Saved for your ear when lutes be old.

Loose the flood, you shall find it patent,
  Gush after gush, reserved for you;
Scarlet experiment! sceptic Thomas,
  Now, do you doubt that your bird was true?

VIII.

To lose thee, sweeter than to gain
  All other hearts I knew. 
’T is true the drought is destitute,
  But then I had the dew!

The Caspian has its realms of sand,
  Its other realm of sea;
Without the sterile perquisite
  No Caspian could be.

IX.

  Poor little heart! 
  Did they forget thee? 
Then dinna care!  Then dinna care!

  Proud little heart! 
  Did they forsake thee? 
Be debonair!  Be debonair!

  Frail little heart! 
  I would not break thee: 
Could’st credit me?  Could’st credit me?

  Gay little heart! 
  Like morning glory
Thou’ll wilted be; thou’ll wilted be!

X.

Forgotten.

There is a word
  Which bears a sword
  Can pierce an armed man. 
It hurls its barbed syllables,—­
  At once is mute again. 
But where it fell
The saved will tell
  On patriotic day,
Some epauletted brother
  Gave his breath away.

Wherever runs the breathless sun,
  Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
  There is its victory!

Behold the keenest marksman! 
  The most accomplished shot! 
Time’s sublimest target
  Is a soul ‘forgot’!

XI.

I’ve got an arrow here;
  Loving the hand that sent it,
I the dart revere.

Fell, they will say, in ‘skirmish’! 
  Vanquished, my soul will know,
By but a simple arrow
  Sped by an archer’s bow.

XII.