SUSPICION ! Demon of the twilight hour,
Silent, dark brooding in the wav’ring mind,
That dost our peace with length’ning rage devour,
To sights of woe inexorably blind!
Oh! cease to gloom life’s too tempestuous day,
With restless thought of future clouded woe,
Cast off the veil that lur’d thee in the way
Of causeless wrong, and sorrow’s fancied flow.
No friend with thee can in the bosom dwell,
Sad melancholy guards thy drear abode;
Far, far from peace is fix’d thy cheerless cell,
And thorns and briars strew the mazy road.
‘Tis thine to mar each sweet domestic bliss;
If once thy wing rest on the wedded pair,
There deadly fearful is thy scorpion-hiss,
For ah! thy viewless form bodes years of care.
Thee would I hurl to realms of deepest night,
Where mis’ry breathes her ever-during sigh;
No more to hover with deceitful light,
And quench the beams of beauty’s faded eye.
(Emma Lyon)
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