POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS.

POEMS

AND

TRANSLATIONS.

BY

E. H. HOUGHTON, M.A.

Oxford and London:

JAMES PARKER AND CO.

1871.

280. n. 216.

I.

I HOVER With unsettled wing,

And pluck a branch from bygone time,

And bear it with me to a clime That ever shews a budding spring.

I plant it in a likely ground,

And watch it with unsleeping care ; And pray the blighting breath to spare, The sun to shed its beams around:

And well they do, and in return

To me it brings both fruit and flower; And to a troubled mind the power All meaner things to pass and spurn.

But yet it brings nor flower nor fruit

To him that will not court its shade; For him alone its beauty made

Who loves to tend its earliest shoot;

B