Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/Dangers Faced

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XX.

THE MARRIAGE MORNING.

My heart is filled with bitter thought,
    My eyes would fain shed tears;
I have been thinking upon past,
    And upon future years.

Years past—why should I stir the depths
    Beneath their troubled stream?
And years that are as yet to come,
    Of them I dread to dream.

Yet wherefore pause upon our way?
    'Tis best to hurry on;
For half the dangers that we fear,
    We face them, and they're gone.

Blanchard’s title is:

DANGERS FACED

In The New York Mirror (10th March 1838), as The Past and Future