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SONG OF A GUARDIAN SPIRIT.
BY MRS. HEMANS.
"They sin who tell us love can die.
With life all other passions fly
All others are but vanity!
In heaven ambition cannot dwell,
Nor avarice in the vaults of hell;
Earthly these passions, as of earth—
They perish where they have their birth!
But love is indestructible:—
Its holy flame for ever burneth,
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth!
SOUTHEY.
Oh! droop thou not, my gentle earthly love—
Mine still to be!
I bore, through death, to brighter lands above,
My thoughts of thee.
Yes! the deep memory of our holy tears—
Our mingled prayer—
Our suffering love, through long devoted years,—
Went with me there!
It was not vain, the hallowed and the tried—
It was not vain!
Still, still, though viewless, hovering at thy side,
I watch again!
