I know, my love, thou art false to me ;
Yet I cannot love thee less :
And I know I have lost the little power
I once might have to bless.
I know to-morrow will see thee wed
To a young and beautiful bride; —
And I know thou wilt think no more of me,
Who was once thy joy and thy pride.
I am near the grove with grief and despair ;
And the merry marriage bell
That summons thy bride and thee to church,
Will be my funeral knell.
Thy bride is young — thy bride is fair —
May her virtues long fix thee !
And oh ! may’st thou never be false to her,
As thou hast been to me !
Yet think not, love, that at my death,
My spirit from thee will part ;—
I still will guard and watch over thee,
Tho’ thou hast broken my heart.
When thou and thy fair bride shall gaze
On the rosy evening sky—
When the sun hath set in the western sea
Invisibly I will be nigh.
And when summer smiles, I will appear
Like a fair and beautiful rose ;
And thou, perchance, wilt admire me,
And say my blush brightly glows.
I will weep a drop of purest dew,
And breathe the most fragrant sigh
That ever flower on earth yet breathed,
When thou and thy bride come nigh.
I will whisper amidst the breezes of eve ; —
I will swell the nightingale’s song ;
And my breath shall perfume the fair young flowers
And groves thou walkest among.
I will watch o’er thee when thou sleepest, love,—
I will float on the soft moon-beams —
To whisper music in thine ear,
And lull thee with heavenly dreams.
And when at last thou shalt die, my love,
A primrose I’ll over thee bloom ;
And my soul shall dissolve in a dew-drop tear,
For a willow to weep o’er thy tomb.
(Mary Anne Browne)
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