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And sue with streaming eyes;—
But more remote thou fliest away,
The humbler I thine influence pray,
And expectation dies.
But more remote thou fliest away,
The humbler I thine influence pray,
And expectation dies.
Twice three long years of life have gone.
Since thy loved presence was withdrawn,
And I to grief resigned;—
Laid on the couch of lingering pain,
Where stern disease's torturing chain
Has every limb confined;
Since thy loved presence was withdrawn,
And I to grief resigned;—
Laid on the couch of lingering pain,
Where stern disease's torturing chain
Has every limb confined;
And separate from the household band,
Disconsolate and lone,
With no sweet converse's social charm
One pain imperious to disarm,
Or quell the rising moan,
I lie in hopeless doom to grieve.
While no kind office can relieve,
Nor can I sustenance receive
But from another's hand;
Disconsolate and lone,
With no sweet converse's social charm
One pain imperious to disarm,
Or quell the rising moan,
I lie in hopeless doom to grieve.
While no kind office can relieve,
Nor can I sustenance receive
But from another's hand;
While anguish veils the body o'er
And balmy sleep is known no more.
And every thought that thrills the brain
Gives frantic energy to pain,
And the cold dew-drops copious drain
Through every opening, rending pore.
And balmy sleep is known no more.
And every thought that thrills the brain
Gives frantic energy to pain,
And the cold dew-drops copious drain
Through every opening, rending pore.
