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Her father watched, she turned her eyes Though on all other things with looks inaway;

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tense

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A parting pang, the spirit from her past; And they who watched her nearest,

could not know

The very instant, till the change that cast Her sweet face into shadow, dull and

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Glazed o'er her eyes-the beautiful, the black

Oh! to possess such luster-and then lack!

Her recollection; on her flashed the Thus lived-thus died she; never more on dream

Of what she was, and is, if ye could call 525 To be so being: in a gushing stream The tears rushed forth from her o'erclouded brain,

Like mountain mists, at length dissolved in rain.

her

Shall sorrow light, or shame. She was not made

Through years or moons the inner weight

to bear,

Which colder hearts endure till they are laid

By age in earth; her days and pleasures This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and

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