Of memory's glow, of dreams that shed Of love renew'd and friends restor❜d! * The poems, which immediately follow. то CARA, After an Interval of Absence. CONCEAL'D within the shady wood A mother left her sleeping child, And flew, to cull her rustic food, The fruitage of the forest wild.. But storms upon her path-way rise, Far from the weak appealing cries Of him she left so sweetly sleeping. She hopes, she fears; a light is seen, Perhaps his little eyes are shaded Thus, when my soul, with parting sigh, I thought, and, oh! forgive the thought, Of fancying what his soul desir'd? Yes-I did think, in CARA's mind, Though yet to CARA's mind unknown, I left one infant wish behind, One feeling, which I call'd my own! Oh blest! though but in fancy blest, And, many an hour beguil'd by pleasure, And many an hour of sorrow numbering, I ne'er forgot the new-born treasure, Perhaps, indifference has not chill'd it, Haply, it yet a throb may giveYet, no-perhaps a doubt has kill'd it! Oh, CARA!-does the infant live?, ΤΟ CARA. On the Dawning of a New Year's Day. WHEN midnight came to close the year, We sigh'd to think it thus should take The hours it gave us-hours as dear As sympathy and love could make Their blessed moments! every sun Saw us, my love, more closely one! But, CARA, when the dawn was nigh Told us, those moments were not fled; Oh no!-we felt, some future sun Thus may we ever, side by side, We give to hours, that vanish o'er us, That Hope shall shed on scenes before us! |