Arabella

The youth of two great Bostonian lines

Who meet and love on fair faraway Isle

Tender the tale: two souls, two hearts, two minds

Alike...Reader, pause here, stay but awhile


Together Love's wonder and passion mix

A beauty rare—so sweet for it to reach 

Love’s zenith: High Hour! The Lovers’ Fix! 

Slow idyll time and slow love on the beach


But Old World lines with ancient flaws reveal

Threats that imperil from inside and out 

And for their lives our lovers must appeal

To Fate that her turns be then turned about


Witness these events with eyes new and right

See now what comes forever from their sight