REVENITA. 

    Life is love, and only love, Love that had its source above. It wreathes with flowers the chastening rod, And diamond decks the throne of God. SANSON. 

If "life is love, and only love,"   Then never have I lived before; But for love's sack I'll sit me down And careful con the lesson o'er. 

I fain would win the shining goal, So far away, so seeming fair, But could not reach its hights alone; Then, teacher, take me, take me there.                                         REVENITA. 

Thy teacher, then, will take thee there, And ever watch with tender care, To guard they way to loftiest aim, And his reward thy love shall claim. SANSON. 

O, inconsistent teacher, He'd knowledge give away; Fill head and heart, from tome of art, Then take me for his pay. 

He'd kindly lead me to the realm Where joyous freedom reigns, He'd teach my soul love's sweet control, Then claim it for his pains. REVENITA. 

Ah! Reyenita, do not charge To selfishness thy teacher's plea, He seeks thine every wish to bless, His deepest fault is loving thee. "Heaven's kingdom," said the Nazerene, "Is in the heart;" sweet fairy queen Thou rulest along this realm of mine, Canst say I have no place in thine? SANSON. 

They boast of Ormuz's milk-white pearls, The ruby's magic art, And proudly wear the crystal drop That fires the diamond's heart. 

And these may admiration claim, And countless wealth may sway, But rarer gem was given to me, One golden summer day. 

Its wondrous tints, a brilliant glow, Emit in darkest gloom, A sweeter fragrance 'round it clings, Than breath of eastern bloom. 

Were all earth's costly jewels thrown In one great glittering heap, They could not buy for ev'n a day The gem I'd selfish keep. 

Yet 'twas not won from pearly depths, Nor gleaned from diamond mine, Nor all the chemist's subtlety Its substance could define. 

It ne'er was set in band of fold Some dainty hand to grace, Ne'er shone in diadem to deck A brow of kingly race. 

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