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Fifth song (Truth)

Oh! would that love had power to raise A little isle for us alone, With fairy flowers, and sunny rays, The blue sea wave its guardian zone.

No other step should ever press This hidden Eden of the heart, And we would share its loveliness, From every other thing apart.

The rose and violet should weep, Whene'er our leafy couch was laid, The lark should wake our morning sleep, The bulbul sing our serenade.

And we would watch the starry hours, And call the moon to hear our vows, And we would cull the sweetest flowers, And twine fresh chaplets for our brows.

I thought thus of the flowers, the moon, This fairy isle for you and me; And then I thought how very soon How very tired we should be.