Poems (Hornblower)/Lines to J. E. J———

by Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblower

LINES. TO J. E. J———

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Farewell! beloved one! thou wert to me
 A sweet bright light upon the future thrown,
And visions of thy happy infancy
 Swelled in my heart, as if thou wert my own.

Oft, as thy deep blue eye has met my gaze,
 Fond hope of other years has moistened mine;
And oh! I loved its little gentle rays,
 And felt each look around my heart entwine.

And thou art gone—away to brighter spheres,
 From all our love for ever past away;
Thy flight is winged above this veil of tears,
 Thy smile is beaming in eternal day.

Yet shall some relic in our hearts be kept,
 Of one who was so beautiful and dear;
The love we cherished as our spirits wept,
 That love shall pass not with the parting tear.

For memory sometimes shall our babe replace,
 With all the feelings that were once so sweet;
And if we see her with an angel's face,
 O! let us hope in future thus to meet!