Yes

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



MY SOUL is raying like a star,
My heart is happier than a bird,
And all to hear through fortune’s jar
One promissory word.

A sound as simple as the low
Quick sliding gurgle of a rill,
And yet with power to overflow
A world with blissful will!

I feel as though the very air
Was breathen from the heart of Love,
As Pleasure in the sun’s bright lair
Sat brooding like a dove!

A billow of the sunny sea,
A cloudlet of the summer sky,
How wide is their felicity—
So widely blest am I!

O Beauty, through one little word
What boundless power is thine to bless!
O Love, a seraph’s voice is heard
In thy confiding “Yes!”

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 612
Words 123
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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