Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet LIII

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SONNET LIII.

FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA.

THE LAPLANDER.

THE shivering native, who by Tenglio's side
    Beholds with fond regret the parting light
Sink far away, beneath the darkening tide,
    And leave him to long months of dreary night,
Yet knows, that springing from the eastern wave
    The sun's glad beams shall re-illume his way,
And from the snows secured—within his cave
    He waits in patient hope—returning day.
Not so the sufferer feels, who, o'er the waste
    Of joyless life, is destin'd to deplore
Fond love forgotten, tender friendship past,
    Which, once extinguish'd, can revive no more!
O'er the blank void he looks with hopeless pain;
For him those beams of heaven shall never shine again.