LAËL AND LAURA.
61
I am consumed by an all-thrilling fire,
Which sears my heart, lights Virtue's funeral pyre;
And now I vow by heaven's celestial height,
I never could have loved thee ere to-night!
By yonder star that is my destiny,
I swear—yea, more than swear—I love but thee!
O Lora! Lora! dream no more of heaven;
A paradise on earth to us is given;
And we may pluck the mellow fruits that bloom
Within its walls, and fear not Adam's doom.
Our life will be one sunset-glow of love,
Whose tints will never fade like those above,
And o'er its bright horizon there will shine
The guardian-star of bliss that is divine.
In ecstasy we'll sigh the hours away,
And live in soft embraces all the day,
And when the darkness creeps athwart the sky,
To a secluded grotto we will hie,
Which sears my heart, lights Virtue's funeral pyre;
And now I vow by heaven's celestial height,
I never could have loved thee ere to-night!
By yonder star that is my destiny,
I swear—yea, more than swear—I love but thee!
O Lora! Lora! dream no more of heaven;
A paradise on earth to us is given;
And we may pluck the mellow fruits that bloom
Within its walls, and fear not Adam's doom.
Our life will be one sunset-glow of love,
Whose tints will never fade like those above,
And o'er its bright horizon there will shine
The guardian-star of bliss that is divine.
In ecstasy we'll sigh the hours away,
And live in soft embraces all the day,
And when the darkness creeps athwart the sky,
To a secluded grotto we will hie,
