Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 43 1835/Thoughts During Sickness IV. Remembrances of Nature

by Felicia Hemans

The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 43, Page 329

IV.
Remembrances of Nature.

O Nature! thou didst rear me for thine own,
With thy free singing birds and mountain brooks,
Feeding my thoughts in primrose-haunted nooks
With fairy phantasies and wood-dreams lone.
And thou didst teach me every wandering tone
Drawn, from the many whispering trees and waves,
And guide my step to founts and starry caves,
And where bright mosses wove thee a rich throne
'Midst the green hills: and now that, far estranged
From all sweet sounds and odours of thy breath,
Fading I lie, within my heart unchanged
So glows the love of thee, that not for death
Seems that pure passion's fervor—but ordain'd

To meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstain'd.