• What can console for a dead world?
    We tread on dust which once was life;
    To nothingness all things are hurled:
    What meaning in a hopeless strife?
            Time’s awful storm
            Breaks but the form.

    Whatever comes, whatever goes,
    Still throbs the heart whereby we live;
    The primal joys still lighten woes,
    And time...

  • Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
      Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
    Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,
      Like fairy-gifts fading away,
    Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
      Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
    And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
      Would entwine itself verdantly...


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    You dont believe I wont attempt to make ye

    You are asleep I wont attempt to wake ye

    Sleep on Sleep on while in your pleasant dreams

    Of Reason you may drink of Lifes clear streams
    5 Reason and Newton they...