How strange are these things! For years I have moved amid a blaze of beauty, and coldly turned away from a thousand glittering attractions.

But, when my eyes first saw you, there was a pause in my heart's pulsations.

I felt that my soul's companion was discovered to me; that, henceforth, my life and yours were to blend.

Ah, dear one! wonder not that, from a hasty impulse, I decided to return and see your father.

I fear, now, that the cause most strongly influencing me was the desire to look upon your face and feel the thrilling touch of your hand once more.