Away, away, ye notes of woe! Be silent, thou once soothing strain, Or
I must flee from hence–for, oh! I dare not trust those sounds again. To
me they speak of brighter days – But lull the chords, for now, alas! I
must not think, I may not gaze, On what I am–on what I was. The
voice that made those sounds more sweet Is hush’d and all their charms are fled; And
now their softest notes repeat A dirge, an anthem o’er the dead! Yes,
Thyrza! yes, they breathe of thee Beloved dust! Since dust thou art; And
all that once was harmony Is worse than discord to my heart! ’Tis
silent all –but on my ear The well remember’d echoes thrill; I
hear a voice I would not hear, A voice that now might well be still; Yet
oft my doubting soul ’twill shake; Even slumber owns its gentle tone, Till
consiousness will vainly wake To listen, though the dream be flown. Sweet
Thyrza! waking as in sleep, Thou art but now a lovely dream; A
star that trembled o’er the deep, Then turn’d from earth its tender beam. But
he who through life’s dreary way Must
pass, when heaven is veil’d in wrath, Will
long lament the vanish’d ray That scatter’d gladness o’er his path. |
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