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Virginalia ; or, songs of my summer nights

A Gift of Love for the Beautiful

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TO CARIE.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

TO CARIE.

“Je ne vois rein que mecontente
Absent de ma Divinite.”
—M. Noailes to the Princess de Conde.

Dear Carie! I am all alone,
With no one, now, to comfort me!
The snow-white Dove of Joy has flown
Out of my heart in losing thee!
The Violets reappear in Spring—
The young dove with the new-born year;
But when wilt thou return to bring
Back to my soul all these, my dear?
The grief that once in thee was lost,
Returns again to make me pine;
Because the Joy my heart loved most,
Remains away along with thine!