Excerpt from Melodies of a Modern Muse

Poets Wedding.

One morning fair, to the forest shady
I wandered forth with my sweet lady,
Unto her there I faltering said:
In this deep wood, love, let us wed.

But she made answer sweet, replying,
And all the while so gently sighing:
We cannot wed in the forest, dear,
For lo! There is no witness here.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit, that grave flower
Shall bind us, love, in his secret-bower,
And songful birds shall sweetly sing,
When I give thee thy wedding-ring.

In that cool wood, with thick leaves bedded,
The Muse and I were stilly wedded,
And gentle fairies and gay-clad flowers
Were witnesses to that bond of ours.

In Fancy's realm we have made our home,
O pleasant 't is with the Muse to roam.
And a faithful wife is the Muse to me,
For she bore me songs of Poesy.

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