No more!
[387] “Jamais, jamais, je ne serai aimé comme j’aime!” was a mournful expression of Madame de Staël’s.
THOUGHT FROM AN ITALIAN POET.
Where shall I find, in all this fleeting earth,
This world of changes and farewells, a friend
That will not fail me in his love and worth,
Tender and firm, and faithful to the end?
Far hath my spirit sought a place of rest—
Long on vain idols its devotion shed;
Some have forsaken, whom I loved the best,