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But he, who through life's dreary way

Must pass, when heav'n is veil'd in wrath, Will long lament the vanish'd ray

That scatter'd gladness o'er his path.

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ONE struggle more, and I am free

From pangs that rend my heart in twain;

One last long sigh to love and thee,

Then back to busy life again.

It suits me well to mingle now

With things that never pleas'd before : Though every joy is fled below,

What future grief can touch me more?

2.

Then bring me wine, the banquet bring;
Man was not form'd to live alone :

I'll be that light unmeaning thing

That smiles with all, and weeps with none. It was not thus in days more dear,

It never would have been, but thou

Hast fled, and left me lonely here;
Thou'rt nothing, all are nothing now.

3..

In vain my lyre would lightly breathe!
The smile that sorrow fain would wear
But mocks the woe that lurks beneath,
Like roses o'er a sepulchre.
Though gay companions o'er the bowl

Dispel awhile the sense of ill;

Though pleasure fires the madd'ning soul:

The heart-the heart is lonely still!

4.

On many a lone and lovely night
It sooth'd to gaze upon the sky;
For then I deem'd the heav'nly light

Shone sweetly on thy pensive eye:
And oft I thought at Cynthia's noon,
When sailing o'er the Ægean wave,
"Now Thyrza gazes on that moon-"
Alas, it gleam'd upon her grave!

5.

When stretch'd on fever's sleepless bed, And sickness shrunk my throbbing veins, ""Tis comfort still," I faintly said,

"That Thyrza cannot know my pains:" Like freedom to the time-worn slave,

A boon 'tis idle then to give;

Relenting nature vainly gave

My life, when Thyrza ceas'd to live!

6.

My Thyrza's pledge in better days,

When love and life alike were new!

How different now thou meet'st my gaze!
How ting'd by time with sorrow's hue!

The heart that gave itself with thee
Is silent-ah, were mine as still!
Though cold as e'en the dead can be,
It feels, it sickens with the chill.

7.

Thou bitter pledge! thou mournful token! Though painful, welcome to my breast! Still, still, preserve that love unbroken,

Or break the heart to which thou'rt prest!

Time tempers love, but not removes,

More hallow'd when its hope is fled: Oh! what are thousand living loves

To that which cannot quit the dead?

XV.

EUTHANASIA.

1.

WHEN Time, or soon or late, shall bring
The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead,
Oblivion! may thy languid wing

Wave gently o'er my dying bed!

2.

No band of friends or heirs be there,
To weep, or wish, the coming blow :
No maiden, with dishevell'd hair,
To feel, or feign, decorous woe.

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