A PRAYER FOR PURITY IN LOVE. I LOVE! and love hath given me My heart of hearts within: With starry glimpses peer; I drink in beauty like heaven-wine, And there's a rainbow round my soul Dear God in heaven! keep without stain OH! love is deeper than the ocean's caves, Yet, seeming strange, he feigns uncaring words, Cold as the winter pour'd o'er shrinking herds, And love is plaintive as a cushat dove, And yet there's nought so silent as sweet love; |