Mathilde Blind (1841-1896). Love in Exile (Songs). V. (X.) "On Life's Long Round". Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Love in Exile (Songs)
V. (X.) “On Life’s Long Round”

By Mathilde Blind (1841–1896)


ON life’s long round by chance I found
A dell impearled with dew,
Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground
Lent to the earth heaven’s native hue
Of holy blue.	5

I sought that plot of azure light
Once more in gloomy hours;
But snow had fallen overnight
And wrapped in mortuary white
My fairy ring of flowers.	10