LINES FROM HORACE

Paraphrased by Moore.

"There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two that are linked in one heavenly tie. With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills and love on till they die. One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss. And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth. It is this, — it is this !