Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Rise from the Dead—lost Dreams! be disentombed!]
Rise from the Dead—lost Dreams! be disentombed!Come back before these mournful eyes to shine,
Which earthwards ever heavily incline—
For which of old all common things assumed
Hues of glad loveliness, while sweetly bloomed
In her own blushing Paradise divine
Hope the Enchantress!—and its key was mine.
Thence driven, a Wanderer have I long been doomed!—
And will ye ne'er come back, high dreams of old,
Which once these dimmed and earthwards drooping eyes
Rejoicing and enraptured could behold?—
No! ye shall ne'er return—yet why these sighs,
I shall rejoin ye when Life's years are told,
Ripened and realized in the opening skies!
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