When the meadow was all golden With the cowslips' May-day bells, And the sweet breath of the primrose Came up from fragrant dells; When the blackbird and the throstle Whistled cheerly in the morn, And the skylark, quivering upward, Rose singing from the corn; Then when the blessed spring-time Filled with beauty all the earth, From her father's lordly castle Would this maiden wander forth, Where the violets were blooming In unfrequented dells; O'er the mead where zephyrs pilfered Fragrance from the cowslips' bells. Wheresoever beauty lingered, There this radiant maiden strayed, And beauty by her presence More beautiful was made; The sunshine looked more golden As it gleamed around her head; And the grass more green and living Rose up beneath her tread; And the flowers more bright and fragrant To greet her coming grew; And mad with love and music The birds about her flew. Oh! she was the loveliest maiden That ever eye did see; She was sunshine, she was music, She was all the world to me. But she never knew the passion That set my soul aflame; That hid me by the hedge-row To watch whene'er she came, To see her glorious beauty, Like a star from heaven, go by. Oh! to see her but one moment God knows that I would die, O peerless Imogen! {192} They bore her to the abbey With the pomp of princely woe, With steeds and hearse and snowy pall, And white plumes drooping low: And high, proud heads were bending In her funereal train, And princely eyes were weeping Heavy tears like summer rain. I far off followed slowly, No tears were in mine eye; 'Twas not for one so lowly To weep for one so high; But, oh! since she hath vanished, With her have seemed to go All the beauty, all the music, Of this weary world below! Dead, dead, and buried, Imogen! E. Young. -------- The Jesuits In North America. [Footnote 31] [Footnote 31: _The Jesuits in North America, in the Seventeenth Century_. By Francis Parkman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1867. _History and General Description of New France_, By the Rev. P. F. X. de Charlevoix, S.J. Translated with notes, by John Gilmary Shea. In six vols. Vols. i. and ii. New York: John Gilmary Shea. 1866 _History of the Catholic Missions among the Indian Tribes of the United States_ By John Gilmary Shea. New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother. 1855.]