A learned and a happy ignorance Divided me From all the vanity, From all the sloth, care, pain, and sorrow that advance The madness and the misery Of men
No error, no distraction I Saw soil the earth, or overcloud the sky
I knew not that...
[Supposed to be chanted to some rude instrument at a modern fireplace]Chant we the story now Tho' in a house we sleep;
Tho' by a hearth of coals Vigil to-night we keep
Chant we the story now,
Of the vague love we knew When I from ou...
Come slowly – Eden!
Lips unused to Thee –
Bashful – sip thy Jessamines –
As the fainting Bee –