I have gazed o’er the hills in the day’s soft decline,
And my thoughts they have wandered to that fairer clime,
Where thou wast reposing mid sunshine and song,-
Oh! say, did thy smile or thy sigh e’er belong
One moment to me?
Ah! no.-Other forms-how much brighter-more fair
Than mine own-were around thee thy presence to share;
While Joy, on her pinions of azure and gold,
Shed her light o’er the lovely-the thoughtless-the bold,
Unmindful of me.
And my proud heart that stooped not to flatter the crowd,
In its solitude pined-yet its grief was not loud;
For ah! as the blossom that turns to the sun
Shuts its beauty as soon as his race he has run,-
Its fond worship o’er;
So my heart had its twilight-its sun-and its showers,-
But lonely it drooped in sad memory’s bowers,
For its hope and its sunlight had faded away;-
Thy star again shone, and its bright quivering ray
Brought peace unto me.
(Edward Henry Bickersteth)
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