Poems (Nealds)/Address to the Evening Star
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ADDRESS TO THE EVENING STAR.
When gazing on the queen of night,I turn to view thy milder light, Thou beauteous evening star;Oh! bear upon thy silv'ry beam,The tears that from my eye-lids stream, To him who is afar.
For he possesses all my heart,And though, alas! we're doom'd to part, From him it ne'er will stray;Oh! bid him sometimes waste a thoughtOn her whose breast with anguish fraught Sighs her sad life away.
Hesper, thy aid I now implore,Oh! give me him whom I adore, And ease my aching breast;I ask not gaudy glittering wealth,Grant me but love, content, and health, And I shall then be blest.