IV. To Sleep I give my powers away; O heart, how fares it with thee now, Something it is which thou hast lost, Some pleasure from thine early years. Break, thou deep vase of chilling tears, That grief hath shaken into frost ! Such clouds of nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes; With morning wakes the will, and cries, 'Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.' ས་ Scientific I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; But, for the unquiet heart and brain, In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Exerein is sorthin. VI. One writes that 'Other friends remain,' That Loss is common to the race'. And common is the commonplace, That loss is common would not make O father, wheresoe'er thou be, Who pledgest now thy gallant son, O mother, praying God will save Thy sailor, while thy head is bow'd, His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave. Ye know no more than I who wrought Jenny Son writin with at thi of Anthim deart. Expecting still his advent home; With wishes, thinking, 'here to-day,' O somewhere, meek, unconscious dove, For now her father's chimney glows And thinking this will please him best," She takes a riband or a rose; For he will see them on to-night; And with the thought her color burns; And, having left the glass, she turns Once more to set a ringlet right; And, even when she turn'd, the curse Was drown'd in passing thro' the ford, Or kill'd in falling from his horse. O what to her shall be the end? And what to me remains of good? To her perpetual maidenhood, And unto me no second friend. 67 Wisipale It. Recuded will gather after Contreage. VII. Dark house, by which once more I stand Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be claspt no more At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. |