TO HIS LOVE.

“Teach me, love, to be true;

Teach me, love, to love;

Teach me to be pure like you.

It will be more than enough!

“Ah, and in days to come,

Give me, my seraph, too,

A son nobler than I,

A daughter true like you:

“A son to battle the wrong,

To seek and strive for the right;

A beautiful daughter of song,

To point us on to the light!”