Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.
VII. Domestic LovePark Benjamin (1809–1864)
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When those we love hear fond affection’s words,
The heart is cheerful, as in morning light
The merry song of early-wakened birds:
And, oh! the atmosphere of home—how bright
It floats around us, when we sit together
Under a bower of vine in summer weather,
Or round the hearthstone on a winter’s night!
This is a picture not by Fancy drawn:—
The eve of life contrasted with its dawn;
A gray-haired man,—a girl with sunny eyes;
He seems to speak, and, laughing, she replies:
While father, mother, brothers smile to see
How fair their rosebud blooms beneath the parent tree!