FROM "FIAMETTA".
Since I am her's and she is mine
We live in Love and fear no change!
For Love is God, so we divine.
Since I am her's and she is mine,
In some fair love-land far and fine,
Through golden years our feet shall range.
Since I am her's and she is mine,
We live in Love and fear no change.
Why dost thou look so pale, my Love?
Why dost thou sigh and say Farewell?
"These myrtles seem a cypress grove."
Why dost thou look so pale, my Love?
"I hear the raven, not the dove,
And for the marriage-peal, a knell."
Why dost thou look so pale, my Love?
Why dost thou sigh and say Farewell?
"Since I can never come again,
When I am dead and gone from here,
Grieve not for me; all grief's in vain,
Since I can never come again;
But let no thought of me remain.
With my last kiss give thy last tear,
Since I can never come again,
When I am dead and gone from here."
All the night and all the day
I think upon her lying dead,
With lips that neither kiss nor pray
All the night nor all the day.
In that dark grave whose only ray
Of sun or moon's her golden head,
All the night and all the day
I think upon her lying dead.
Why should I live alone,
Since Love was all in vain?
My heart to thine is flown-
Why should I live alone?
Dost thou too make thy moan,
In Paradise complain:
Why should I live alone,
Since Love was all in vain?
What can heal a broken heart?
Death alone, I fear me,
Thou that dost true lovers part,
What can heal a broken heart?
Death alone, that made the smart,
Death, that will not hear me.
What can heal a broken heart?
Death alone, I fear me.
A. Mary F. Robinson.