Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems by the late Thomas Haynes Bayly; Edited by his Widow. With A Memoir of the Author. In Two Volumes |
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MY HEART IS NOT YET BROKEN!
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My heart is not yet broken,The harp not yet unstrung!
“Despair!” hath not been spoken,
Though trembling on my tongue!
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Of blessings—past recall;
I mourn not, she hath left me
Thy love, more dear than all!
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My heart too well remembersMy boyhood's home of mirth,
Methinks I see the embers
Still blazing on the hearth!
My song of youth—I hear it
Still echo thro' the hall!
'Tis gone—but I can bear it!
Thy love atones for all.
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A stranger owns the meadow.The scene of sportive plays,
The trees, beneath whose shadow
I pass'd bright summer days:
O'er fond hopes crush'd, so early,
Some secret tears must fall—
But loving thee so dearly,
Thy love atones for all.
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