A Maiden's Song

I LOVE! and Love hath given me
Sweet thoughts to heaven akin,
And oped a living Paradise
My heart of hearts within:

O from this Eden of my life
God keep the Serpent Sin!

I love! and into Angel-land
With starry glimpses peer!
I drink in beauty like heaven-wine,
When One is smiling near!
And there's a Rainbow round my soul
For every falling tear.

Dear God in heaven! keep without stain
My bosom's brooding Dove:

O clothe it meet for angel-arms,
And give it place above!

For there is nothing from the world
I yearn to take, but Love.