WHEN MIDST THE GAY I MEET. WHEN midst the gay I meet That blessed smile of thine, Though still on me it turns most sweet, I scarce can call it mine: But when to me alone Your secret tears you show, Oh, then I feel those tears my own, The snow on Jura's steep Can smile with many a beam, Whose touch is fire, appears, WHEN TWILIGHT DEWS. WHEN twilight dews are falling soft I watch the star, whose beam so oft There's not a garden walk I tread, FANNY, DEAREST. OH! had I leisure to sigh and mourn, But, between love, and wine, and sleep, That even the time it would take to weep The Love that's order'd to bathe in wine, Reflected bright in this heart of mine, SIGH NOT THUS. SIGH not thus, oh simple boy, Worth one hour of anguish. Stars have ceased their shining; Then, Love, vanish hence, Melancholy thoughts of Cupid's lore; Hours soon fly away, Charms soon die away, Then the silly dream of the heart is o'er. "TIS LOVE THAT MURMURS. "TIs Love that murmurs in my breast, And makes me shed the secret tear; Nor day nor night my heart has rest, For night and day, his voice I hear. Oh! bird of Love, with song so drear, Make not my soul the nest of pain; Oh; let the wing which brought thee here, In pity waft thee hence again! YOUNG ELLA. YOUNG Ella was the happiest maid Oh! she was like the silver rose How could'st thou, faithless Edmund, leave Alas, poor Ella! No longer now the hamlet train, And quenched is all that lively fire. Fond maid when from these ills severe, And twine thy grave with many a flower. The story of thy hapless doom, Shall deck the rustic poets lay, And as they pass thy simple tomb, The village hinds shall weeping say, Alas, poor Ella! THE PILGRIM. HOLY be the pilgrim's sleep, From the dreams of terror free; And may all who wake to weep, Rest to-night as sweet as he. "Hark! hark, did I hear a vesper swell? It is, my love, some pilgrim's prayer;" "No, no, 'tis but the convent bell, That toll'd upon the midnight air!" "Now, now again, the voice I hear, Some holy man is wandering near: O pilgrim, where hast thou been roaming, Dark is the way, and midnight's coming;" Stranger I've been o'er moor and mountain, To tell my beads at Agnes' fountain!" 66 "And, pilgrim, say where art thou going, Dark is the way, the winds are blowing;" "Weary with wandering, weak, I falter, To breathe my vows at Agnes' altar!" Strew then, oh strew his bed of rushes, Here he shall rest till morning blushes! (Dirge heard from the Convent within.) Peace to them whose days are done, Death their eyelids closing; Hark! the burial rite's begun, "Tis time for our reposing. (Pilgrim throwing off his disguise.) "Here then, my pilgrim's course is o'er," ""Tis my master, 'tis my master, Welcome! welcome, home once more!" WILT THOU SAY FAREWELL, LOVE? "WILT thou say farewell, love; The anguish of her heart." "I'll still be thine, and thou❜lt be mine, I'll love thee though we sever; Oh! say, can I e'er cease to sigh, "Wilt thou think of me, love, "Let not other wiles, love, Thy ardent heart betray; |