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nY A LADY.

PARTED LOVE,
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for earthiy hre 10 aurH Mce."-i'YRoy.
We parted-and we knew It was .f6rerer--
We knew it, yet VIC paltcd-then each thought
And inmost feeling of our souls, which never
Had else been brcathed in words, rushed


forth and sought


Their sweet home in each others hearts, and there
They lived and grew mid sadness and despair.
1t was not with the bonds Of common love
Our hearts were knit together; they had been
Silent companions in those grieis which move
And purify the soul, and we had seen
Each others truth and strength Of mini, AMI


hence


We loved with Passions hottest cofidcnce.
And Virtue was the great bond that united
Our guilelcss hopes in love-. simplicity;
And in those higher aims we mcckly sighted
The shallow feelings and weak vanity
Which the porM calls Affection, for our eyes
Had not been caught with smiles-our hearts


with sighs.


We parted, Gas our hearts had livcd) in duty
To Heaven and virtue; and we both resigned
Our cherished trist--I, all her worth and beauty,
And she the untold devotion of my mind:
We parted in mute anguish, but we bent
I.owly to him whose love is chastisement.
It was, pcrchance, her spirit hal been goaded
With snffcrings past its bcaring-that her frail
But patient heart had been so deeply loaded
With sorrow, that its chords were forced to


fail


Severed by more than distance, ! was told
Her heart amid its suiferngs had grown cold.
She rests in Heaven,- and IL could not follow;
NV soul was crushed, not broken, and live
To think ofall her love, and feel how hollow
Are the sick gladnesses the world cap give:
live, in faith and holy calm, TO prove
Ny heart was not unworthy of such love.