Warm heart, soft heart, generous and gentle,
Full of sweet affections, sympathies, and loves,--
How thou transcendest all the merely mental,
How dost thou exceed in all The Holy One approves!
In affliction's hour
Gracious in thy power
Tenderly thou comfortest, a sister in distress,--
And when matters brighten
How thy smiles enlighten
Every one that looks on thee, an angel sent to bless,
Every eye that lights from thee its torch of happiness!

Clear mind, keen mind, wall'd about with greatness,
Conqueror unconquerable over human ill,
Theban Colossus sitting in sedateness,
How art thou in majesty a mighty spirit still!
In the day of trouble,
Though its grief be double,
Gloriously thou triumphest above the battle-din,
And when, after sadness,
All is turn'd to gladness,
Thou remainest calm, a true philosopher within,
Calm amidst a universe of folly, strife, and sin!

Warm heart! great mind! be ye both united,
Knit in holy wedlock, mind and heart as man and wife,--
So shall the soul, to strength and beauty plighted,
Bring forth all its precious fruits in perfect Christian life!
Ever full of feeling,
Yet the spirit steeling
Sturdily against the wrongs and troubles of this earth;
Ever strong and steady,
Yet in spirit ready
Heartily to pity or to love where love is worth,
Lovingly to live the life begun at second birth!