THE SUBLIME HOPE

By Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur

What need to tell thee o'er and o'er again

What eyes to eyes have spoken silently

And heart to heart hath uttered? Love must be

For us a hushed delight, a voiceless pain

Serenely borne! Our lips must ne'er profane

Our inmost feelings,— lest the sanctity

Of Love be lessened in our hearts and we

Nought higher than the common path attain!

The common path were death to us, whose love,

O'erruled by Fate, from earthly hopes debarred,

Must look to Heav'n for sublimer joys

Than those which earth can give, which earth destroys.

Our path is steep, but there is light above,

And Faith can make the roughest way less hard.