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Poems (Baldwyn)/Similitudes in Nature

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Poems
by Augusta Baldwyn
Similitudes in Nature
4501745Poems — Similitudes in NatureAugusta Baldwyn
SIMILITUDES IN NATURE.
Come, let us stray afar
Beside the gushing stream:
Soft shines the first bright star,
Like hope in love's sweet dream.
The mellow light is fading
From the waving woods away,
And the rustling boughs are shading
The lone paths where we stray.

The golden hues of even,
Whose rich refulgence cast
Such glory o'er the heaven,
How swiftly are they past!
Oh, may our happy feelings
Be never shaded o'er;
But we may find revealings
Of our fates upon the shore.

The varied earth, stars, skies,
Our destinies can tell:
The secret in a flower lies,
Could we but read it well.
Who would try the magic art,
When e'en the bud that blows
Speaks of the lonely breaking heart,—
The summer's last sweet rose.

Who would doubt of holy love,
Or name it but a dream?
The light that shines in heaven above
Is mirror'd in the stream.
Wildly breaks the foaming sea
O'er rocky cliffs in vain;
Great life's trials all may be,
Yet break they friendship's chain?

These "everlasting hills" arise
Like green encircling walls;
Serene and cloudless are the skies,
While scarce a zephyr hills.
They speak of home and soft repose,
And of the heavenly rest
Where "not a wave of sorrow flows
Across the peaceful breast."

In beauteous nature not in vain
A harmony is found;
By sympathy it strikes "the chain
Wherewith we're darkly bound."
To those who love, or deeply feel,
The poet's powers are given;
All bliss and beauty they reveal,
And upward point to heaven.