But on the ties that first the heart enchain,
And every grace that bids the charm remain.
Time will, we know, to beauty work despite,
And youthful bloom will take with him its flight;
But Love shall still subsist, and, undecay’d,
Feel not one change of all that Time has made.
ON A DRAWING OF THE ELM TREE, UNDER WHICH THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON STOOD SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
Is there one heart that beats on English ground,
One grateful spirit in the kingdoms round—
One who had traced the progress of the foe,