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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
And gaze on the pictured smile no more
That thus can life out-last,
All between parted souls is o'er;—
—Love! love! forget the past!
"Voice of vain boding! away, be still!
Strive not against the faith
That yet my bosom with light can fill,
Unquench'd, and undimm'd by death:
"From the pictured smile I will not turn,
Though sadly now it shine;
Nor quit the shades that in whispers mourn
For the step once linked with mine:
"Nor shut mine ear to the song of old,
Though its notes the pang renew,
—Such memories deep in my heart I hold,
To keep it pure and true.
