SONNEL. I WAS Pygmalion's handiwork; I grew OUTLEFT. WHAT shall we do for her, our sister? What can we do for her, you and I ; For, oh the sunshine hath somehow miss'd her, For, oh! the dewfall hath left her dry! Never we felt it and yet we know it, Anguish and wrong that her life doth prove; You, because you were born a poet, Shall we not care for her greatly, seeing Down in the depths of her inmost being, Well does she know that loving is living, Does not her heart with the thought half break? Sorely she longs for the joy of giving, None will stoop down unto her and take. Many would rise and call her blessed, Ay, if we could, such face we had won her, Pale for the stress of love's infinite honour, Oh, but our sister, our little sister, What must we do for her, you and I? Seeing love's lips have never kiss'd her, Seeing love's feet have past her by. Oh, we will tell her we love her truly; After the years of dull repression, Folding her up in their darkness deep, Blown on by spring-winds that rouse and freshen, Will she not think that she walks in sleep? Opening her eyes, she will see around her, Then she will know that Love has found her, And it shall be that, a little while hence, Lifting her voice, will sing to us. Sing to us, weep to us, laugh to us, render Love what is love's through all calms and stirs ; Cling to our breast as a baby tender, And as a mother clasps us to hers. A LETTER. JOHN GRAHAM to the one who was his own Sends greeting kind and half a broken ring, And many her letters, and this last of his. You know me, Alice Ker, and what I am, The waste, and set me where the rising sun This was your good intent, dear Alice KerAh, I am bitter-well, I will not be |