ADVERSITY ! whose gloomy face
Still haunts my wearied eye,
What bosom can thy sorrows chase,
By thee once doom’d to sigh?
Chill blew the winds when thou wert born,
And ev’ry cloud roll’d slow;
Each flow’ret droop’d, but left a thorn,
To hail the child of woe.
But soft the air that moment rang
Adversity was stay’d;
She could not move while heavenly sang
A calm and tranquil maid.
Descending soon, with steady mien
She rais’d her azure eye,
All gaz’d upon the heavenly queen,
And check’d was every sigh.
“Adversity,” she cry’d, “no more
“Shall rule with bleeding dart;
” ‘Tis fortitude has gain’d the shore,
“Let sighs and tears depart.
“Though still she spreads her dreary gloom,
“Where my firm sons reside;
“Soon flow’rs shall rise and sweetly bloom,
“In all their wonted pride.”
She said–no more shall sorrow dew
The cheek with endless tears;
Since fortitude in glory’s view,
With her more bright appears.
(Maria Logan)
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