Come away!-the heart, at last forsaken, Though to other shores far hence they woo: In the light leaves, in the reed's faint sighing, FAIR HELEN OF KIRCONNEL. "Fair Helen of Kirconnel," as she is called in the Scottish Minstrelsy, throwing herself between her betrothed lover and a rival by whom his life was assailed, received a mortal wound, and died in the arms of the former. HOLD me upon thy faithful heart, Beloved!-yet this is death! Look on me still:-let that kind eye Be the last light I see! But yet I die for thee! For thee, my own! thy stately head Was never thus to bow Give tears when with me love hath fled, Oh the free streams look'd bright, where'er O friend! because we loved. Farewell!-I bless thee-live thou on, MUSIC FROM SHORE. A SOUND comes on the rising breeze, From land, from sunny land it comes, Why should its faint and passing sigh Yet blessing, blessing on the spot Kind hearts, although they know me not, And blessing, from the bark that roams O'er solitary seas, To those that far in happy homes + LOOK ON ME WITH THY CLOUDLESS EYES. Look on me with thy cloudless eyes, The spirit of my infant prayer Shines in the depths of quiet there; And home and love once more are mine, My gentle child! Oh! heaven is with thee in thy dreams, The songs marked thus ‡ are in the possession of Mr. Willis, to be published by him with music. IF THOU HAST CRUSH'D A FLOWER. "O cast thou not Affection from thee! In this bitter world Hold to thy heart that only treasure fast; Ir thou hast crush'd a flower, Once more it may be lighted: If thou hast loosed a bird Whose voice of song could cheer thee, Still, still he may be won From the skies to warble near thee: But if upon the troubled sea Thou hast thrown a gem unheeded, Hope not that wind or wave will bring If thou hast bruised a vine, The summer's breath is healing, And its clusters yet may glow Through the leaves their bloom revealing: But if thou hast a cup o'erthrown With a bright draught fill'd-oh! never Shall earth give back that lavish'd wealth To cool thy parch'd lips' fever! The heart is like that cup, If thou waste the love it bore thee; And like that jewel gone, Which the deep will not restore thee; And like that string of harp or lute Whence the sweet sound is scatter'd :- BRIGHTLY HAST THOU FLED. BRIGHTLY, brightly hast thou fled, With thy young thoughts pure from spot, With thy bounding heart. Ne'er by sorrow to be wet, Calmly smiles thy pale cheek yet, Ere with dust o'erspread: Lilies ne'er by tempest blown, White rose which no stain hath known, Be about thee shed! So we give thee to the earth, And the primrose shall have birth Thou, that like a dewdrop borne Brightly thus hast fled! |