Oh! when shall the grave hide forever my sorrow?

Oh! when shall my soul wing her flight from this clay?

The present is hell! and the coming to-morrow,

But brings with new torture, the curse of to-day.

2.

From my eye flows no tear, from my lips fall no curses,

I blast not the fiends, who have hurl'd me from bliss,

For poor is the soul which bewailing rehearses,

Its querulous grief, when in anguish like this—

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