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So too a mournful joy it gives to dwell
Awhile upon the gloomy shades that fell
Around our path, when He who gave each gem,
That shed its lustre from love's diadem,
Bereft the spirit of her cherished prize,
And bore the jewel to its native skies.

And though the heart has once been torn by woes
That will not heal, by wounds that will not close,

Till He shall come whose power alone can steep
Each pulse of anguish in unthrobbing sleep;
Yet there's an influence in the lengthened sigh-
Time wafts around us as he passes by;

A soothing balm, his trembling kiss contains,
A gentle charm breathes in his whispered strains,
That blunts the keenest of each piercing grief,
And yield, at least, the semblance of relief.

And then, when each rebellious thought is still,
When we have bowed submissive to His will,

Whose arm sustained us, when the tide of woe
Did o'er our souls in raging billows flow-
When we have known how vain those pleasures are
That earth holds forth to cheer the path of care;
We feel it good often our view to cast
Upon the sorrows of the mournful past,
And see, amid the clouds of other days,
Some lights to guide us in our future ways.

Then lead thou on! sweet spirit, let us rove
To haunts once lighted by the star of Love--

Lead on! for 'mid the winds that by me stray,
I hear sweet voices calling me away;
Whose low-breathed tones, as near me now they float,
Wake in my heart full many a chiming note.

And see! engirt in robes of spotless hue,
Who, who are they that there oppose our view?
What beings those that in such beauty rise?
Or do they come descending from the skies?

Methinks the Angels cannot be more bright
Than yonder forms that meet my raptured sight,
What lofty virtue! what serene content!
What gentle firmness with affection blent!
What softness mingles with the queen-like air,
That marks the person of the elder fair!

And Oh, how bright! how fondly bright the smile,
That lingers round the younger's brow the while!
How like the radiance of the sinless dove,
Her eye beams forth its tenderness and love!

On, on they come. And now no more unknown,
I feel their arms in fondness round me thrown;
My mother's form bends o'er me, and I hear
My sister's voice breathe softly in mine ear.
Words silent, long, their accents tune again,
And sweetly murmur love's undying strain;

Affection's fingers too awake the strings

To higher numbers, now the music rings;
Memory unites to swell the concord sweet,
And buried joys their thrilling notes repeat.
As, wafted o'er the bosom of the sea,
Falls on the ear some fairy minstrelsy

That plaintive dies, or merry peals along
As Zephyrs list, or join the swelling song;
And as at times across the morning sky,
Sunshine and clouds in rapid changes fly;

So round me now appear to swell the lays,
That breathe the music of departed days;
So in swift flight seem now around me cast
The lights and shadows of the changeful past.
They fade-alas! the gentle vision's fled;
No more I see its beauty o'er me shed;

And yet, methinks, that still they hover near
The spirit shapes of those forever dear;
And though unseen, that now their beaming eyes
Are gazing on me from the azure skies.

And 'tis perchance their voices whispering by
That gives such sweetness to the evening's sigh;
The gentle fluttering of their Angel wings,
That wake the soothing tones of mem'ry's strings.
Spirit of Twilight, vision of an hour!
Farewell to thee, to all thy holy power!
Farewell! for gaily clad in robes of light,
The stars are dancing in the halls of night.

Farewell! And as thou reach'st thy home again
With the bright forms "that lingered in thy train;
O send! in all the light that round thee beams,
Thy sister" spirit of our midnight dreams,
Whose voice may breathe those songs unsung by thee,
That linger yet in cells of memory.
Leeds, Virginia.

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