Poems (Campbell)/Harriet
HARRIET.
Calm as yon stream's pellucid breast,
That down the winding valley flows,
By health and innocence caress'd,
The dayspring of my life arose.
That down the winding valley flows,
By health and innocence caress'd,
The dayspring of my life arose.
My looks were fresh as yonder flow'r
That blushes on its parent thorn,
Peace smil'd upon my midnight hour,
And waken'd with the purple morn.
That blushes on its parent thorn,
Peace smil'd upon my midnight hour,
And waken'd with the purple morn.
But, ah! disguis'd in friendship's mien,
Insidious love assail'd my breast;
Destroy'd each brighter, fairer scene,
And robb'd my soul of peace and rest.
Insidious love assail'd my breast;
Destroy'd each brighter, fairer scene,
And robb'd my soul of peace and rest.
I found him full of anxious fears,
Of cares and doubts an endless train;
The herald of my future tears,
The harbinger of future pain.
Of cares and doubts an endless train;
The herald of my future tears,
The harbinger of future pain.
The verdant fields, the azure skies,
The dimpled brook, and leafy grove,
Have been the witness of his sighs,
The list'ners of his plighted love.
The dimpled brook, and leafy grove,
Have been the witness of his sighs,
The list'ners of his plighted love.
But since he falsely can forsake
The heart 'twas once his pride to gain,
That heart shall now in silence break,
Nor let him triumph in its pain.
The heart 'twas once his pride to gain,
That heart shall now in silence break,
Nor let him triumph in its pain.
Perhaps, when death these eyes shall close,
My faithless Edward yet may mourn,
May think him then of all my woes,
And weep, too late, on Harriet's urn.
My faithless Edward yet may mourn,
May think him then of all my woes,
And weep, too late, on Harriet's urn.