hervey to nina.—miss bremer.
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'T was joy to know thee of that fountain drinking,
Within my heart, upspringing but for thee,
And I of thine as deeply, all unthinking
There might be madness in that draught for me!
Within my heart, upspringing but for thee,
And I of thine as deeply, all unthinking
There might be madness in that draught for me!
When all of bliss the earth-born may inherit,
Divinely lavish, was around us thrown,
And when the mystic union of the spirit
Had twined our glowing beings into one,—
Divinely lavish, was around us thrown,
And when the mystic union of the spirit
Had twined our glowing beings into one,—
Then were we parted; Hope's ecstatic vision
Grew dim with tears, and Joy's young pinion furled;
Pillowed on flowers, we had a dream Elysian,
And we have wakened in a stormy world!
Grew dim with tears, and Joy's young pinion furled;
Pillowed on flowers, we had a dream Elysian,
And we have wakened in a stormy world!
Gone, gone for ever! we beheld it vanish,
As a warm cloud melts in the blue above;
Yet from our souls no power create can banish
The golden memory of that dream of love!
As a warm cloud melts in the blue above;
Yet from our souls no power create can banish
The golden memory of that dream of love!
