Kisses are sweetest under covering hair, And whispers in its woven twilight best; As flowery boughs above the chirping nest Make sweet and sacred all the darkened air Wherein abide the soft-secluded pair, my darling Rosine And know in the warm fragrance where they rest The small heart beating in the downy breast Each of its mate:--a paradise they share. This is a longing of the human heart After that dream, an Eden all for two, Some lonely island amid the ocean's blue Where love may sport, and laugh, and kiss Therefore it was a moment past I drew Your hair about my eyes, the angel that you are.