Off gauntlets, Boys! show naked palms!
Left foot in front! come nearer still!
The Order takes you to her arms
And holds you with a will.
Off gauntlets! hand in hand combine!
Left foot in front! you know the sign!
Low breath, — no cowan must divine,
The word we give you!

Troubling the Water thus, in vain,
With such a Skin , as Fonts would stain ,
The Gipsie , seeks to wash away
Orig'nal Dirt , and Adam's Clay ;
Would she a likelier Course pursue,
She must put off, the' old Woman too.

TO THE CHARTER OAK, (HARTFORD) ON BEING REFUSED
PERMISSION, WITH OTHERS, TO APPROACH THE TREE, SEPT . 19,
1839.

A clever de'il, in Eden's yard,
Kept the forbidden tree;
But who, approach to thee debar'd,
Can say as much of thee?

Good Figures mock , so the Beholders View ,
As while you look on them, they look on you ;
The Artist , for this Piece , has done no less,
Th' old Mans Eyes fail, he lends him Spectacles .

ON SEEING A FELLOW NODDING IN CHURCH .

This surely is a day of rest;
But better you 'd improve it,
To sink your head upon your breast,
And cease so much to move it.

FATE

Fate, passing over earth one night,
Laid his stern seal on three new lives:
One died a king, one sank in fight,
One wasted in his felon gyves.

LOVE SUPREME

You ask what love is? It is this, my own:
To hold all women pure because of you,
Yet give heart reverence unto you alone,
And for your sake be steadfast, brave, and true.

ANSWERED

A dark, cowled figure knelt before a shrine,
And prayed, " Oh, Father, give my hate its will. "
Then lurid lightnings in the temple shine,
And leave a shadow lying cold and still.

HARVEST-TIME

Winter is keen with wind and white with snow,
And Spring gives blossoms to the orchard trees,
Then wheat-fields ripen in the Summer's glow,
And Autumn harvests all the strength of these.

III

DISCOVERY

Out from the silence of the unknown world,
A whisper falling from invisible lips
Grew a loud challenge through vast distance hurled,
And flecked the ocean with adventurous ships.