Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics
by Denis Florence MacCarthy


EXPECTATION.

FROM CASSIMIR DELAVIGNE.

TUTTO CON TE MI PIACE,
SIA COLLE, O SELVA, O PRATO.
                                          METASTASIO.

The morn has chased the shades of night,
    The streams grow bright beneath her eye;
A golden veil of purple light
    Hangs o'er the rosy eastern sky.

To catch the sun's awakening rays
    Upon the turf still wet with dew,
With trembling haste the rose displays
    Her crimson chalice to the view.

A sweeter zephyr fills the place,
    The birds in sweeter concert sing,
More closely in a fond embrace
    Around the elm the vine doth cling.

Amid these shades so calm and still,
    All things partake of my delight--
Fresh turf, fair sky, transparent rill,--
    Ah!  can you know she comes to-night?

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MacCarthy, Denis Florence (1817-1882).  Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics, Original and Translated Dublin:  James McGlashan, 1850.

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