208 CANZONET. CANZONET. DEAR is my little native vale, To every passing villager. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree In orange-groves and myrtle-bow'rs, The shepherd's horn at break of day, S. Rogers. THE MORNING-LAND. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine; And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, 'Tis the clime of the East; 'tis the land of the Sun Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done? Oh! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell. 14 Modern Poets. Lord Byron. 210 LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY. LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY. THE fountains mingle with the river The winds of heaven mix for ever Nothing in the world is single, See, the mountains kiss high heaven And the sunlight clasps the earth, P. B. Shelley. LOVE'S EXAMPLES. THE violet loves a sunny bank, The scarlet creeper loves the elm; The sunshine kisses mount and vale, The west winds kiss the clover blooms; The oriole weds his mottled mate, Heaven's marriage-ring is round the earth; 7. Bayard Taylor. JENNY'S KISS. JENNY kissed me when we met, Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing dull, but add— Jenny kissed me! L. Hunt. 212 SWEET PERIL. SWEET PERIL. ALAS! how easily things go wrong— Alas! how hardly things go right— For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay, George Macdonald. FLOWERS. I WILL not have the maid Clytie The violet is a nun;- But I will woo the dainty rose, The queen of every one. The pea is but a wanton witch, In too much haste to wed, And clasps her rings on every hand; |