Respect Was Mingled With Surprise, And The

For A Laggard In Love, And A Dastard In War, Was To Wed The Fair Ellen Of Lochinvar.

When True Friends Meet In Adverse Hour; 'tis Like A Sunbeam Through A Shower. A Watery Way An Instant Seen, The Darkly Closing Clouds Between.

True Love's The Gift Which God Has Given To Man Alone Beneath The Heaven: It Is Not Fantasy's Hot Fire, Whose Wishes Soon As Granted Fly; It Liveth Not In Fierce Desire.

Some Feelings Are To Mortals Given With Less Of Earth In Them Than Heaven.

Who, Noteless As The Race From Which He Sprung, Saved Others' Names, But Left His Own Unsung.