To Mary: It Is the Evening Hour

It is the evening hour,
How silent all doth lie:
The horned moon she shows her face
In the river with the sky.
Just by the path on which we pass,
The flaggy lake lies still as glass.

Spirit of her I love,
Whispering to me
Stories of sweet visions as I rove,
Here stop, and crop with me
Sweet flowers that in the still hour grew,
We'll take them home, nor shake off the bright dew.

Mary, or sweet spirit of thee,
As the bright sun shines to-morrow
Thy dark eyes these flowers shall see,
Gathered by me in sorrow,
Into the still hour when my mind was free
To walk alone--yet wish I walked with thee.