I see it in your swimming eyes,
And feel I’m not alone!
St. Louis, October 10, 1839.
THE CHANGE.
Written on board the steamboat Gov. Shelby, on the Mississippi river, October 20th, 1839.
Why do I stand so silently,
With folded arms and tearful eye?
Hour after hour thus I spend,
Immers’d in thoughts which know no end.
It was not thus in days gone by,