Hollow smile and frozen sneer Come not here. Holy water will I pour Of the laurel-shrubs that hedge it around. The flowers would faint at your cruel cheer. In your eye there is death, The wild-bird's din. In the heart of the garden the merry bird chants. It would fall to the ground if you came in. With a low melodious thunder; And it sings a song of undying love; And yet, tho' its voice be so clear and full, You never would hear it, your ears are so dull; So keep where you are; you are foul with sin; It would shrink to the earth if you came in. |