Poems by Two Brothers 2nd ed. [by Charles Tennyson] |
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‘HOW GAILY SINKS THE GORGEOUS
SUN WITHIN HIS GOLDEN BED’ |
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‘HOW GAILY SINKS THE GORGEOUS SUN WITHIN HIS GOLDEN BED’
“Tu fais naitre la lumiere
“Du sein de l'obscurité.”
Rousseau.
“Du sein de l'obscurité.”
Rousseau.
How gaily sinks the gorgeous sun within his golden bed,
As heaven's immortal azure glows and deepens into red!
How gaily shines the burnish'd main beneath that living light,
And trembles with his million waves magnificently bright!
But ah! how soon that orb of day must close his burning eye,
And night, in sable pall array'd, involve yon lovely sky!
E'en thus in life our fairest scenes are preludes to our woe;
For fleeting as that glorious beam is happiness below.
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Yet Hope shall be the star that lights our night of grief on earth:
And she shall point to sweeter morns, when brighter suns shall rise,
And spread the radiance of their rays o'er earth, and sea, and skies!
A. T. (?)
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