Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 43 1835/Thoughts During Sickness VII. The Recovery

by Felicia Hemans

The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 43, Page 330

VII.
The Recovery.

Back then, once more, to breast the waves of life,
To battle on against th' unceasing spray,
To sink o'erwearied in the stormy strife
And rise to strive again: yet on my way
Oh linger still, thou light of better day,
Born in the hours of loneliness; and you,
Ye childlike thoughts, the holy and the true,
Ye that came bearing, while subdued I lay,
The faith, the insight of life's vernal morn
Back on my soul, a clear, bright sense, new-born,
Now leave me not; but as profoundly pure
A blue stream rushes thro' a darker lake
Unchanged, e'en thus with me your journey take,

Wafting sweet airs of heaven thro' this low world obscure.