Landon in The Literary Gazette 1825/Song 3
Literary Gazette, 23rd April, 1825, Page 268
ORIGINAL POETRY.
SONG.
My heart is wholly changed.
My heart is wholly changed
From what it was to me,
Altho' I scarce may say
In what that change can be.
'Tis not from faded hope;
For all that hope could seem,
Has been realized for me
Beyond its wildest dream.
Nor yet is it that love
Has lighted up my heart;
In the fears and cares of love,
As yet I have no part:
For far too light a spirit,
And too cold a breast is mine,
For Love to fix on me
As his dwelling place and shrine.
But I am sad to think
Upon life's summer scene,—
To think upon what is,
And upon what has been:
To think how friends deceive,
To think how foes can feign;
And how the heart's best gifts
Are given but in vain;
To think that tears are false,
To think the same of smiles,
To think that honeyed words
The trusting one beguiles:
Of sorrow, like a blight,
Falling on youth and bloom;
To think upon the broken heart,
On sickness and the tomb:
And knowing what I know,
And seeing what I see,
How can I marvel that my heart
Is changed and sad to me.
L. E. L.