II

With these alone he draws in magic lines,

Faces that people dreams, and chiefly one

Happy and brilliant as the northern sun,

And by its darling side there gleams and shines

One of God's children with the laughing signs

Of dimples, and glad accents, and sweet cries,

That angels are and heaven's memories:

The wizard thus my soul's estate divines;

All it holds dear he sets alone apart,

Etches the past in likeness of dim groves

Silvered in quiet rime and with rare art,

In crystal spoils and fairy treasure-troves,

He draws the picture of the happy heart,

By those who love it most, whom most it loves.

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