| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | II. June
2. “I would be with thee on the sunny hills” | | By Mrs. Mary Noel McDonald |
| | Succession of Sonnets
I WOULD be with thee on the sunny hills, | |
| And by the streams would linger, as they flow | |
| With their perpetual music sweet and low; | |
| And where, in light, leap out the shining rills, | |
| Like chains of liquid diamonds, I would be: | 5 |
| Methinks ’t were sweet to wander far and free, | |
| Tempting each craggy height or sylvan shade,— | |
| A loiterer where the mossy banks, inlaid | |
| With nature’s flowery gems, invite repose; | |
| And, stealing o’er my brow, thy breath of balm | 10 |
| Might lull each care my beating bosom knows, | |
| And bid the tossing waves of thought be calm; | |
| And I might half forget life’s boding ills, | |
| Roaming with thee out on the sunny hills. | | | | |
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