Troop home to silents grots and caves! <br />Troop home! And mimic as you go <br />The mournful winding of the waves <br />Which to their dark abysses flow! <br /> <br />At this sweet hour, all things beside <br />In amourous pairs to covert creep; <br />The swans that brush the evening tide <br />Homeward and snowy couples keep; <br /> <br />In his green den the murmuring seal <br />Close by his sleek companion lies; <br />While singly we to bedward steal, <br />And close in fruitless sleep our eyes. <br /> <br />In bowers of love men take their rest, <br />In loveless bowers we sigh alone! <br />With busom-friends are others blessed, - <br />But we have none! But we have none!<br /><br />George Darley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mermaidens-vesper-hymn/
