Excerpt from Gladys: A Romance

... A thing to walk with, hand in hand,
Through the every-dayness of this work-day world,
Baring its tender feet to every roughness,
Yet letting not one heart-beat go astray
From Beauty's law of plainness and content.
Such is true Love, which steals into the heart
With feet as silent as the lightsome dawn
That kisses smooth the rough brows of the dark,
And hath its will thro' blissful gentleness -
Not like a rocket which, with savage glare,
Whirs suddenly up, then bursts, and leaves the night
Painfully quivering on the dazed eyes.
A Love that shall be new and fresh each hour
As is the golden mystery of sunset,
Or the sweet coming of the evening star.

James Russell Lowell.

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