Poems (Craik)/Edenland

by Dinah Maria Craik

EDENLAND.

For Music.

OU remember where in starlight
 We two wandered hand in hand,
While the night-flowers poured their perfume,
 And night-airs the still earth fanned I—
There I, walking yester even,
 Felt like a ghost in Edenland.

I remember all you told me,
 Looking up as we did stand,
While my heart poured out its perfume,
 Like the night-flowers in your hand;
And the path where we two wandered
 Seemed not like earth but Edenland.

Now the stars shine paler, colder
 Night-flowers die without your hand;
Yet my spirit walks beside you
 Everywhere, unsought, unbanned.
And I wait till we shall wander
 Under the stars of Edenland.