תמונות בעמוד
PDF
ePub
[blocks in formation]

sprang white,

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

in a horror of heart-beats you

may

"The dead thing will never from my thoughts!"

a few daylight doses of plain life,

And Gallop," gasped Joris, 'for Cock-crow and sparrow-chirp, or

Aix is in sight!"

[blocks in formation]

bleat and bell

[blocks in formation]

Nor bright and envied, nor obscure and scorned,

Nor so young that their pleasures fell too thick,

Nor old past catching pleasure when it fell,

Nothing above, below the just degree, All at the mean where joy's components mix.

So again, in the couple's very souls You saw the adequate half with half to match,

Each having and each lacking somewhat, both

Making a whole that had all and lacked naught;

The round and sound, in whose com

posure just

The acquiescent and recipient side

[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Was Pietro's, and the stirring striv-Yield its like, propagate a bliss in

ing one

Violante's: both in union gave the

due Quietude, enterprise, craving and

content, Which go to bodily health and peace of mind.

But, as 'tis said a body, rightly mixed,

Each element in equipoise, would last

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

JUNE.

I GAZED upon the glorious sky

And the green mountains round; And thought that when I came to lie

At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June,

When brooks send up a cheerful tune,

And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make,

The rich, green mountain turf should break.

A cell within the frozen mould,
A coffin borne through sleet,
And icy clods above it rolled,

While fierce the tempests beatAway! I will not think of theseBlue be the sky and soft the breeze, Earth green beneath the feet, And be the damp mould gently pressed

Into my narrow place of rest.

There through the long, long summer hours

The golden light should lie,

[blocks in formation]

And thick young herbs and groups of Hold all that enter thy unbreathing

flowers

Stand in their beauty by.

The oriole should build and tell His love-tale close beside my cell;

The idle butterfly

Should rest him there, and there be heard

The housewife bee and hummingbird.

And what if cheerful shouts at noon

Come, from the village sent, Or songs of maids, beneath the moon With fairy laughter blent? And what if, in the evening light, Betrothed lovers walk in sight Of my low monument ? I would the lovely scene around Might know no sadder sight or sound.

I know, I know I should not see The season's glorious show,

[blocks in formation]

My spirit yearns to bring

All shall come back, each tie

The lost ones back-yearns with de- Of pure affection shall be knit again;

[blocks in formation]

Full many a mighty name

Alone shall evil die,

And sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign.

And then shall I behold Him, by whose kind paternal side I sprung,

And her, who, still and cold, Fills the next grave-the beautiful and young.

THANATOPSIS.

To him who in the love of Nature holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks

A various language; for his gayer hours

She has a voice of gladness, and a smile

And eloquence of beauty, and she

glides

Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away

Lurks in thy depths, unuttered, un- Their sharpness ere he is aware.

[blocks in formation]

When thoughts

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Save

his own dashings-yet the dead are there:

And millions in those solitudes, since first

The flight of years began, have laid them down

In their last sleep; the dead reign there alone.

So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw

In silence from the living, and no friend

Take note of thy departure? All that breathe

Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh

When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care

Plod on, and each one as before will chase

His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave

Their mirth and their employments, and shall come,

And make their bed with thee. As

[blocks in formation]
« הקודםהמשך »