MY LADY WITH THE JOYFUL LAUGH

She had such joyful laughter.

It had the lilt of love.

You could hear a love song in it.

Beauty seemed to peal out its bells.

How could love seem so alive?

My heart thumped in tune

As my body kept marking time.

Was I in love with her laugh?

Maybe I was in love with laughter,

Especially such a lilting laugh.

Did I hear a soul having fun?

Only a soul in love is so merry.

Give a laugh like that to love

That I might not know depressed love!

What beauty she had, and so easily

Expressed and so merry—

My lady with the joyous laugh.