Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Music of Laughter

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XIII.

CONFIDENCE.

She had that charming laugh which, like a song,
    The song of a spring-bird, wakes suddenly
When we least look for it. It lingered long
    Upon the ear, one of the sweet things we
Treasure unconsciously. As steals along
    A stream in sunshine, stole its melody,
As musical as it was light and wild,
The buoyant spirit of some fairy child;
Yet mingled with soft sighs, that might express
The depth and truth of earnest tenderness.

Blanchard’s title is:

MUSIC OF LAUGHTER