I FEEL ALONE. "The light of happiness is in the heart." I GO where Beauty's cheek is smiling, And song and music are beguiling And feel alone. I walk along the crowded street And pleasant smiles and greetings meet And feel alone. Oft muse along the water's side, Where buoyant vessels go Like living things adown the tide, And skiffs dart to and fro, And feel alone. And listen to the sweet birds singing In merry, merry glee, The fountains through the green woods ringing And leaping sportively, And feel alone. Then onward wind from hill to dale, That still to cheer me ever fail My heart's a solitude, Forlorn and lone. I gaze upon the quiet sky, In starry splendor dressed, And view beyond with fancy's eye A world where angels rest, Yet feel alone. At any other time than this These would my spirit cheer, And animate it with the bliss That becks me in yon sphere, When I feel lone. But since the voice of that dear one, That Heaven has destined here To guide my weary footsteps on, I feel alone. And not till he again shall come My weary spirit reassume Its wonted cheerfulness, And not feel lone. LINES ON SEEING THE INCONSTANT WEEPING. 'Tis guilt the canker-worm that clings. Thy brow, false one! is pale and wan, Alas! 'tis sad, but no less true, That gems when ours lose half their gloss, The heart thou mourn'st thou hast possessed, |