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WHAT! AFTER LONG SEASONS!
What! after long seasons of strife,
Where the sorrows so thickly were strewn
That, through the wild storm which has troubled my life,
Thy love was the starlight alone!
To come with expectancy's glow,
In the dream of a meeting with bliss!
To hail such a shadow as darkens thy brow,
And a glance—oh! ye Heavens—like this!
Where the sorrows so thickly were strewn
That, through the wild storm which has troubled my life,
Thy love was the starlight alone!
To come with expectancy's glow,
In the dream of a meeting with bliss!
To hail such a shadow as darkens thy brow,
And a glance—oh! ye Heavens—like this!
Oh! how had the exile from home
Been cheer'd by the dream of this hour!
It succor'd his heart in the season of gloom—
The rich rainbow spanning the shower.
And I said to the tempest: “Rage on! while the light
Of that promise attends me in sorrow and strife,
All vainly your storms gather black on my sight—
My love is the star of my life!”
Been cheer'd by the dream of this hour!
It succor'd his heart in the season of gloom—
The rich rainbow spanning the shower.
And I said to the tempest: “Rage on! while the light
Of that promise attends me in sorrow and strife,
All vainly your storms gather black on my sight—
My love is the star of my life!”
Had I dream'd of such meeting while far,
'Mid trial, temptation, unloved and alone,
One pang had been spared in that terrible war,
The worst that my bosom has known!
Thus, the warrior who combats all day with the foe,
And singly the hope of his country defends,
In the moment of triumph, receives the death-blow
From the arm of the traitor, 'mid ranks of his friends.
'Mid trial, temptation, unloved and alone,
One pang had been spared in that terrible war,
The worst that my bosom has known!
Thus, the warrior who combats all day with the foe,
And singly the hope of his country defends,
In the moment of triumph, receives the death-blow
From the arm of the traitor, 'mid ranks of his friends.
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