ASLEEP.
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A link is broken, a chain unbound,
A light in our sky no longer found;
The thoughts, old tree!
Come no more to me,
That associate other years with thee.
A light in our sky no longer found;
The thoughts, old tree!
Come no more to me,
That associate other years with thee.
Ah! never around a greener spot,
Clustered brighter blossoms of thought,
Than when we heard
Thy dark leaves stirred.
And spied through thy branches the singing bird.
Clustered brighter blossoms of thought,
Than when we heard
Thy dark leaves stirred.
And spied through thy branches the singing bird.
ASLEEP.
She has fallen into a deep slumber, so deep
That the voice of affection will break it no more;
In vain do you linger, in vain do you weep,
The struggle is past, and the parting is o'er;
The sweet lute is shivered, and hushed is the lay,
The flower is broken that knew not decay.
That the voice of affection will break it no more;
In vain do you linger, in vain do you weep,
The struggle is past, and the parting is o'er;
The sweet lute is shivered, and hushed is the lay,
The flower is broken that knew not decay.
Death came on a sudden, and touched her young heart;
All the freshness of youth, all its beauty was there;
And 'twas better her spirit from earth should depart,
Ere yet it bowed down to the phantom despair.
All the freshness of youth, all its beauty was there;
And 'twas better her spirit from earth should depart,
Ere yet it bowed down to the phantom despair.
