Addressed To Physicians
O YE ! of our forms who have studied the laws,
And found for each sense and each organ a cause,
Yet ne’er with precision could justly define,
Where soul and where body most truly combine;
Now candidly own as you read, nor deny
That the union of both is complete in the SIGH .
The sources of sighs are so variously framed,
That some may a CLASS of DISEASES be named.
INFECTIOUS they certainly are, you must own;
For who that the sigh of a friend has e’er known,
Did not swift-gliding feel, in the heart, in the eye,
A tear fill the one, and the other a sigh?
But perhaps in the AIR the infection we find,
Since who has not heard of the sighs of the wind?
From sorrow’s deep sources such feelings are cast,
‘Tis the mourner’s sad sighs that we hear in the blast.
Or haply with tones of despair they are mixt,
From some bosom-wound, which remembrance has fixt.
Ah! turn then to hope and to joy once again,
May their softest sighs sooth each wound and each pain!
“Oh! no,” cries the Lover who weeps o’er the sod
Where once with some Being adored he has trod,
“What pleasure on earth is now equal with me,
“To SIGH in the breeze which is BLENDED with thee?
“Yet ah! how more envied my fate it had proved,
“To breathe my LAST SIGH on the BOSOM BELOVED !”
Alas! what is this which I feel at my heart,
That takes in each picture I paint, such a part?
Is danger so subtile?–Infection in thought
From soul-touching sorrows my fancy has caught.
Too sure, as I write, an example I find,
That sighs are the union of body and mind.
(Mrs. Walter Spencer)
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