Take Back the Virgin Page

 Written on Returning a Blank Book


Take back the virgin page, 
White and unwritten still; 
Some hand, more calm and sage, 
The leaf must fill.
 
Thoughts come, as pure as light 
Pure as even you require; 
But, oh! each word I write 
Love turns to fire.
 

Yet let me keep the book: 
Oft shall my heart renew, 
When on its leaves I look, 
Dear thoughts of you.
 
Like you, 'tis fair and bright; 
Like you, too bright and fair 
To let wild passion write 
One wrong wish there.
 

Haply, when from those eyes 
Far, far away I roam, 
Should calmer thoughts arise 
Towards you and home; 
Fancy may trace some line, 
Worthy those eyes to meet, 
Thoughts that not burn, but shine, 
Pure, calm, and sweet.
 

And as, o'er ocean far, 
Seamen their records keep, 
Led by some hidden star 
Through the cold deep; 
So may the words I write 
Tell through what storms I stray -- 
You still the unseen light, 
Guiding my way.

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