 | Poems and Songs by E. H. B. [i.e. E. H. Bickersteth] |  |
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STANZAS TO ---.
“There is a name upon the stone.
Alas! and can it be the same?—
The young, the lovely, and the loved!
It is too soon to bear thy name.”—
L.E.L.
Alas! and can it be the same?—
The young, the lovely, and the loved!
It is too soon to bear thy name.”—
L.E.L.
I
I may no more,—my bitter grief bewailing,—Ask from one dear heart sympathy with mine;
Dim shades of joy before night's darkness paling,
And hopes—my lost one—all are quenched with thine.
II
Memory alone, sad nurse of silent sorrow,No future brings to calm its dark despair;
Mine is the sting—no healing balm to-morrow
Sheds o'er the breathing agony of prayer.
III
Fled is each day-dream which could yield me pleasure,Gone are the sweet flowers—swept by time's rude blast;
Earth—the vast sepulchre of every treasure—
Yawns—Oh! my God! as weary of the past.
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