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Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover Over the mountains, on that northern shore,

Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover

Thy noble heart for ever, ever more?

All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given, thee

All my life's bliss is in the grave with

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,

And even Despair was powerless to destroy;

Cold in the earth-and fifteen wild Then did I learn how existence could

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Long since, we parted in our careless Heads that I helped to lay

prime,

On the pillow that lasts for aye.

Like summer birds no June shall It is but a little way

hasten hither;

No more to meet as in that merry

time,

The sweet spring-time that shone on all together.

Some, to the fevered city's toil and grime,

And some o'er distant seas, and some-ah! whither?

Nay, we shall never meet as in the time,

The dear old time when we were all together.

To the dreary hill where they lie-
No bed but the cold, cold clay-
No roof but the stormy sky.

Cruel the thought and vain!
They've now nothing more to bear--
Done with sickness and pain,

Done with trouble and care --
But I hear the wind and the rain,
And still I think of them there.

Ah, couldst thou come to me,

Bird that I loved the best!
That I knew it was well with thee—
Wild and weary North-West!

And some-above their heads, in Wail in chimney and tree

wind and rime,

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Leave the dead to their rest.

THE ADIEU.

SWEET Falsehoods, fare ye well!
That may not longer dwell

this fond heart, dear paramours of
Youth!

A cold, unloving bride

Is ever at my side

Yet who so pure, so beautiful as
Truth?

Long hath she sought my side,
And would not be denied,

Till, all perforce, she won my spirit
o'er-

And though her glances be

But hard and stern to me.

At every step I love her more and

more.

ALONE.

A SAD old house by the sea.
Were we happy, I and thou,
In the days that used to be?
There is nothing left me now

But to lie, and think of thee
With folded hands on my breast,
And list to the weary sea
Sobbing itself to rest.

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