No summer gladdens the forest now.




HOPE AND DESPAIR


I tread the maze of the changing wood,
And though no light through the maples plays,
Yet they glow each one,
Like a rose-red sun,
And drop their leaves, like a glittering flood
Of warm sunbeams, in the woodland ways.

Poor human heart, in the year of life
All seasons are, and it rests with thee
To enjoy them all,
Or to drape a pall
O'er withered hopes, and to be at strife
With things that are, and no brightness see.




_CARLOTTA._


Poor, lone Carlotta, Mexico's mad Queen,
Babbling of him, amid thy vacant halls,