Over my Cottage

Lyrics

3 The Pleasures sport beneath the thatch; But Prudence sits upon the watch; Nor Dun nor Doctor lifts the latch! 4 Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse, Sit meum, amice, precor: quia certe sum mage pauper. 'Tis mine and it is likewise yours;         But and if this will not do, Let it be mine, because that I         Am the poorer of the Two! 5 Names do not always meet with Love, And Love wants courage without a name. 6 The Moon, how definite its orb! Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze— 'Tis there indeed,—but where is it not?— It is suffused o'er all the sapphire Heaven, Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake, Whose very murmur does of it partake! 7 Such love as mourning Husbands have To her whose Spirit has been newly given To her guardian Saint in Heaven— Whose Beauty lieth in the grave—