A SMILE AND A SIGH.

A smile because the nights are short!

And every morning brings such pleasure

Of sweet love-making, harmless sport:

Love that makes and finds its treasure;

Love, treasure without measure.

A sigh because the days are long!

Long, long these days that pass in sighing,

A burden saddens every song:

While time lags which should be flying,

We live who would be dying.