Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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WHEN JOY IS LIVING. |
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WHEN JOY IS LIVING.
When joy is living at our hearts—
How fair a World this seems to be,
All Nature into Beauty starts—
And all is smiles and harmony.
How fair a World this seems to be,
All Nature into Beauty starts—
And all is smiles and harmony.
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The very clouds that hide the Sun
Look strangely beautiful and bright,
Fair colours seem they to have won,
From some more Heavenly Orb of Light!
Look strangely beautiful and bright,
Fair colours seem they to have won,
From some more Heavenly Orb of Light!
The very shadows that are cast
Along our happy Hope-lit way,
Seem but too exquisite to last,
Too delicate and dear—to stay!
Along our happy Hope-lit way,
Seem but too exquisite to last,
Too delicate and dear—to stay!
When Sorrow chains us—what a change
Comes o'er the face of Earth and Sky,
Joy doth its golden smile estrange
Even from the great Sun's glorious eye!
Comes o'er the face of Earth and Sky,
Joy doth its golden smile estrange
Even from the great Sun's glorious eye!
When the worn heart is ill at rest,
And trembling 'twixt faint hopes and fears,
All Nature seems in mourning drest,
And all around us is in tears!
And trembling 'twixt faint hopes and fears,
All Nature seems in mourning drest,
And all around us is in tears!
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When Pain becomes the bosom's guest,
In darker and in sterner years—
All Nature seems in sable vest—
The Heavens—the Air—the Earth—in tears!
In darker and in sterner years—
All Nature seems in sable vest—
The Heavens—the Air—the Earth—in tears!
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