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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LOVE HAS BEEN THERE.
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Love has been there; those dark eyes speakOf sad and hopeless hours;
On that young cheek,
In vain we seek
The bloom of youthful flowers.
Though o'er thy form gay robes may flow,
Though gems adorn thy hair,
They hide not woe;
Too well we know
Love has been there.
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Can one so young—so very young,Have lost the smiles of youth?
Hath falsehood sung,
With artful tongue,
Too well dissembling truth?
Have blissful thoughts allured thee on,
And faded when most fair?
The look, the tone
Of bliss are gone;—
Love has been there.
III
I met thee first one happy night,With him who smil'd on thee;
Thy step was light,
Those eyes were bright,
And gay and kind was he.
The youth is gone—he left behind
The step, the glance of care;
How changed I find
Thy form, thy mind!
Love has been there.
IV
They say that men have never died,When love's first dream they lost.
That woman's pride
Can turn aside
The shaft that wounds her most:
That love ne'er kills—it may be so,
And death may shun despair;
But tears will flow,
And well we know
Love has been there.
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