IT is the lute, the same poor lute;— Why do you turn away? To-morrow let its chords be mute, But they must sound to-day. The bark is manned, the seamen throng Around the creaking mast: Lady, you heard my first love song,— Sigh not!—I knew the star must set, And if I never can forget, I never will upbraid; I would not have you aught but glad, Where'er my lot is cast; And if my sad words make you sad, III. No more, no more, oh! never more Bring clouds that ivory forehead o'er, IV. I think that you will love me still, My praise will be your proudest theme It is my last! V. And now let one kind look be mine, And clasp this slender chain; Fill up once more the cup of wine, Put on my ring again; And wreathe this wreath around your head,' (Alas, it withers fast!) And whisper, when its flowers are dead, It was the. last! VI. Thus from your presence forth I Heaven's benison or ban: go, He who has known the tempest's worst Blame not these tears; they are the first,— APRIL 2, 1829. A FAREWELL. λιποῦσα δ ̓ Εὐρώπης πέδον, Ηπειρον ήξεις 'Ασίδ'. ἆς ὑμῖν δοκεῖ ὁ τῶν θεῶν τύραννος εἰς τὰ πάνθ ̓ ὁμῶς βίαιος εἶναι ; ESCH. Prom. Vinct. THEY told me thou wilt pass again Across the echoing wave; And, though thou canst not break the chain, Thou wilt forget the slave. Farewell, farewell!-thou wilt not know My hopes or fears, my weal or woe, My home-perhaps my grave! Nor think nor dream of the sad heart The goblet went untasted by Since thou didst prize my love or song, My lot was all unblest: I cannot now be more forlorn, Nor bear aught that I have not borne. We might not meet; for me no more Arose that melting tone; The eyes which colder crowds adore The coxcomb's prate, the ruffian's lies, But it was something still to know And still the shadowy hope was rife My path might cross with thine, And oft in crowds I might rejoice To hear thy uttered name, How coldly would I shape reply,. That none might doubt or blame, |