Poems (Charlotte Allen)/Stanzas (Sadness with all its busy train)
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STANZAS.
Sadness with all its busy train
Of musings, hovered o'er me,
And with a magic power threw
Its misty veil before me.
Of musings, hovered o'er me,
And with a magic power threw
Its misty veil before me.
It was not dark within my soul,—
A ray of heavenly love
I felt inspire my mental shrine,
With influence from above.
A ray of heavenly love
I felt inspire my mental shrine,
With influence from above.
But still I saw my spirits sink;
The world looked cold around me,
And friendship seemed but shadow's shade,
When twilight thus had found me.
The world looked cold around me,
And friendship seemed but shadow's shade,
When twilight thus had found me.
I raised my eyes to yon bright sphere,
Where in unfading lightness,
One little star was smiling down,
In all its native brightness.
Where in unfading lightness,
One little star was smiling down,
In all its native brightness.
E'en thus, I thought, doth Heaven throw,
A star of hope before us,
And with its soothing power shed,
A cheering radiance o'er us.
A star of hope before us,
And with its soothing power shed,
A cheering radiance o'er us.