The Light Of Her Eyes

Whenever I look in her eyes I see

     Those things I have longed to see;

The pleasures that seem far beyond the dream

     Of a soul that is like to me.

For I see the things she cannot tell,

     The things which my soul doth prize;

And a joy divine I discover is mine,

     And I live in the light of her eyes.

And I long to take her upon my breast,

     And to kiss her sorrows away;

But the laws of fate command me to wait,

     And my torrent of passion to stay;

So I drink of the joy when the fates are kind,

     And a hope in my soul doth rise;

For I see each day, in the sweet old way,

     My all in the light of her eyes.

July 10, 1898

Pub. in

B. Globe

July,

1898