@3To you, dear Wife—to whom beside so well?— True Counselor and tried, at every shift, I bring my "Book of Counsels:" let it tell Largeness of love by littleness of gift: And take this growth of foreign skies from me, (A scholar's thanks for gentle help in toil,) Whose leaf, "though dark," like Milton's Hæmony, "Bears a bright golden flower, if not in this soil."@1 |