IV.
The future is too dark for my sad seeing;
I gaze, but, weeping, turn away—
No hope, alas! of our ever being
Less sad than we are here this day.
DESTINY
I.
THERE was a star that lit my life—
It hath set to rise no more,
For Heaven, in mercy, withdrew the light
I fain would have knelt before.
II.
There was a flower I pluck'd in my dreams,
Fragrant and fair to see;
Oh, would I had never awoke and found
Such bloom not here for me.