Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/Illusion

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Illusion.

For works with similar titles, see Grief.

CHAPTER XV.

DIFFERENT VIEWS OF LIFE.

And thus it is with all that made life fair,
Gone with the freshness that it used to wear.
'Tis sad to mark the ravage that the heart
Makes of itself; how one by one depart
The colours that made hope. We seek, we find;
And find, too, charm has, with the change, declined.
Many things have I loved, that now to me
Are as a marvel how they loved could be;
Yet, on we go, desiring to the last
Illusions vain, as any in the past.

Blanchard’s title is:

ILLUSION

First six lines adapted from Moralising in The London Literary Gazette, 1st July 1826

From line 3, in the Bouquet (1846), under (Harebell) Campanula rotundifolia as Grief