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Poems MacCarthy, Florence Denis

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Need we say that Maurice loved her, and that no blush reproved her<br />

When her throbbing bosom moved her to give the heart she gave;<br />

That by dawnlight and by twilight, and, O blessed moon! by thy light,<br />

When the twinkling stars on high light the wanderer o'er the wave,<br />

His steps unconscious led him where Glengariff's waters lave<br />

Each mossy bank and cave.<br />

He thitherward is wending, o'er the vale is night descending,<br />

Quick his step, but quicker sending his herald thoughts before;<br />

By rocks and streams before him, proud and hopeful on he bore him;<br />

One star was shining o'er him--in his heart of hearts two more--<br />

And two other eyes, far brighter than a human head e'er wore,<br />

Unseen were shining o'er.<br />

These eyes are not of woman, no brightness merely human<br />

Could, planet-like, illumine the place in which they shone;<br />

But Nature's bright works vary--there are beings light and airy,<br />

Whom mortal lips call fairy, and Una she is one--<br />

Sweet sisters of the moonbeams and daughters of the sun,<br />

Who along the curling cool waves run.<br />

As summer lightning dances amid the heavens' expanses,<br />

Thus shone the burning glances of those flashing fairy eyes;<br />

Three splendours there were shining, three passions intertwining,<br />

Despair and hope combining their deep-contrasted dyes,<br />

With jealousy's green lustre, as troubled ocean vies<br />

With the blue of summer skies!<br />

She was a fairy creature, of heavenly form and feature,<br />

Not Venus' self could teach her a newer, sweeter grace,<br />

Not Venus' self could lend her an eye so dark and tender,<br />

Half softness and half splendour, as lit her lily face;<br />

And as the choral planets move harmonious throughout space,<br />

There was music in her pace.<br />

But when at times she started, and her blushing lips were parted,<br />

And a pearly lustre darted from her teeth so ivory white,<br />

You'd think you saw the gliding of two rosy clouds dividing,<br />

And the crescent they were hiding gleam forth upon your sight<br />

Through these lips, as though the portals of a heaven pure and bright,<br />

Came a breathing of delight!

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