Oh! had I ne’er beheld thee
How calm my life had flown!
As cold, as pure and tranquil
As some fair vale unknown;
Where never yet the footsteps
Of wand’ring man has stray’d;
That smiles in lonely beauty
Unheeded-unsurve’d.
How cheerfully the moments
In sweet content went by,
When sorrow’s cloud pass’d swiftly
Across a placid sky:
The charm of peace is broken-
Can nought its dream restore?
That sky, obscured by sadness,
Shall ne’er be cloudless more.
(Louisa Stuart Costello)
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