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Poems (Eliza Gabriella Lewis)/The Reverse

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4532882Poems — The ReverseEliza Gabriella Lewis
THE REVERSE.
Life was to me a summer day,
So full of youth and bloom,
Of light and lovliness; and earth,
A garden of perfume.

I knew not that those sunny hours
Could be by storms o'ercast;
I did but dream that gentle showers
Would fall—too light to last.

And yet I've lived to see that sky
By tempests wildly riven:
To see earth's flow'rets fade and die,
Before the whirlwind driven.

To mourn, with anguish'd heart, the wreck
Of all that made life fair;
To feel that roses oft may deck
The forehead of despair.