Open Thy Lattice Love (song)

Open Thy Lattice Love was a song composed by Stephen Foster on February 1, 1844, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[2] The song is mentioned in Chapter IX of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Andersonville" (1955).

Open thy lattice, love listen to me!

The moon like a queen, roams her realms of blue, And the stars keep their vigils in heaven for you Ere morn's gushing light tips the bills with its ray, Away o'er the waters away and away!

He will sit at the helm wherever we rove, And steer by the load-star he kindled above His shell for a shallop will cut the bright spray, Or skim like a bird o'er the waters away; Then open thy lattice, love listen to me!