Song

TO a woman's wistful heart
 In a startled wave of feeling,
 Swift and sudden,
 Sweeps love's flood in,
 Joy with fear in rapture reeling;
 Scathe and sorrow, fret and smart,
 In one flush of gladness healing;
 Life beclouded,
 Sorrow shrouded,
 As a sunlit world revealing
 To a woman's wistful heart!  
  To a woman's wistful heart,
 Warm with hopes that almost frighten.
 Love comes singing,
 Gladly bringing
 To her loneliness a light in.
 Pain and shadowed grief depart,
 Every hour life's glories heighten;
 Earth's wide wonder
 That has shunned her
 Like a flower blooms to brighten
 In a woman's wistful heart!