Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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OH, PITY THOSE! |
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OH, PITY THOSE!
Oh, pity those who love too well!
Too many pangs they prove;
Through life a thousand sorrows dwell
With true and fervent love.
Too many pangs they prove;
Through life a thousand sorrows dwell
With true and fervent love.
But when stern Death at last must come,
They shrink in faultering fear,
Lest that their dark and heavy doom
Should grieve their loved ones here!
They shrink in faultering fear,
Lest that their dark and heavy doom
Should grieve their loved ones here!
They half survive themselves in woe,
Feeling for them, through all—
Those deeply dear, for whom the blow
Full heavily must fall.
Feeling for them, through all—
Those deeply dear, for whom the blow
Full heavily must fall.
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Oh, pity those who love too well!
Such endless griefs they prove;
Through life unnumbered sorrows dwell
With true and trembling love.
Such endless griefs they prove;
Through life unnumbered sorrows dwell
With true and trembling love.
Nor e'en in death those pangs are past,
Which wring the loving heart;
Oh! human love, how deep,—how vast,—
How terrible thou art!
Which wring the loving heart;
Oh! human love, how deep,—how vast,—
How terrible thou art!
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