The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-05-23
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AN EPIo(Ac) POEM.
A Letter From Discarded Lever to
Brother.
Compiled &C.,

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DEAR i,Ro:-
Oppressed with grief which sccms too great
! to bear, 49, .
trust again my troubles to your care.
And now ask, Lescech, implorc and pray,
That this, my love and trust ou'l not betray.
Oh, dearest brother, Iimplorc thee! tell,
Is 1t In Heaven a crime 10 love too wclli
To bear too tender or too ilrm a.heart
To act lovers or a "Damphool's" " partS
WIN fortune still In one sad tenor run,
Aud still inctcase the woes so soon begnnS
Alas! what more could fate itself impose,
Than this, the last aud greatest Of my wocsi
Let nature change, let Heaven and earth lie
plorc,
Ny darling's false, and love 10 now no more
Not fame or wealth, love only was my call,
And when ! lost her love Lost my all.
Cod knows how gniltless ilrst iniet her fame,
When love approached me under friendships
name:
Ny fancy formed her OF angelic kind,
$ ms emanation OF tho alt l-bsauteous mind.
Those smiling eyes, atismperiug every ray,
shown swcctly lambcnt with celestial day.
From lips like those what precepts failed TO
mover
Too soon they taught me twas no sin to love.
As flowers fade aud memory wears away,
50 died her love, and 50 my hopes decay.
Death, only Death, eau break loves lasting
chain,
Or blot fr'm memory'spase lovers name,
or all afilctlons taught lover yet,
The hardest to endure Is " forgets
llow often hope, despair, resent. regret,
Conceal, dislain. do all things bat forget!
The shepherd shuns the glarlng monday heat,
The lowing herbs to mufInufing brooks retreat
To cooler shades the painting nocks remove;
but oh, my Cod there's no relief for love.
On me loves ncrccr flames forever prey,
lly niaht he scorcbcs, as he burns by day.
Love taught my tears in sa,ider notes to now,
And turned my heart to clcgles OF woe.
burn, 4 burn, as when through ripen'd corn,
by driving winds the spreading flames are
borncl
No more my soul charm In music finds;
Mu-lclhas charms alone for peaceful minds.
soft scenes OF solitude no more can please,
Love cntcrs there and I'm my own disease.
Not time the dear remembrance eau remove,
For oh! how vast memory has love!
Go gentle spirit, and bear my slghs away!
To laehcls ear the tender notes convey.
As some sad turtle, his lost love deplores.
And with deep murmurs ILLS the sounding
| shores
| Thus, far from her. In solitude mourn
Alike unheard, unpiticd and iorlorn
Yc nowcrs that droop, forsaken by the spring
Yc birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade when autumn heats remove,
Say, Is not absence death to those who loye,.
The binds shall cease to tuuc their evening
| song,
Tho wind, TO breathe. the waving woods to
move,
| And streams to murmur ere cease to love.
Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain,
Not balmy sleep 70 laborers faint with pain,
so showers to larks, or sunshine to the bee,
Are halfso charming US her sightto me.
lis .he that's all my care aud my delight,
| Ny daily longing and my dream By night
Oh nlght, more pleasing than the brightest day,
when fancy gives what absence takes away.
Aud, ircss'd In all its visionary charms.
Restores my Darling, to my loving arms!.
| A thousand tender words / hear an,l speak;
Thousand melting kisses give and take
but wlieu, with day, the 7weot ,ielusions ny,
Aud all things make 70 joy anil lIfr, but !,
A, II once more forsakrn, complain,
And close my eyes TO dream OF her again.
But such 10 life-a tale VI voc to is.l;-
Aud thus love, though love know too well.
Darling long with you opass my days,
| And ever bask iu loves bright sparkling rays.
AS bees from blossoms sip the morning dew,
SO your own Jacob knows no sweets but you.
In dreams, hear thee, gaze o'cr all thy
charms,
And round thy phantom glue my rlasping arms
Iwake:-no more hear. no more view,
The phantom iiics me MS unkind as you.
call aloud, II hears not what say:-
stretch ms empty arms. II nies away.
TO dream once more close my willing eyce;
yc soft Illusions, dear dcccits arise;
Alas, no moref methlnks VIC wandering so
To breathe our love and weep each others woe.
I'D ask yon give me back your love again.
And let mo toyou ever be the same:
But no; ily. ny, far as Pole from Pole;
Rise Alps between usl aud whole oceans ROLL
All, sigh not ,writc not, think not once of me-
Sorshare one pang OF al, | felt for thee.
Thy oaths sss,, thy memory resign,
Forget, renouncc me, hate what e'cr was mine
Blue eyes and tempting looks (Which yet
yi,wl
Long loved, aiorcd ideas, all adlcu!
Fresh blooming Hope, gay daughter of tho
| sky!
And Faith, our earthly immorta iiy!
| Enfer ca,h mill each amir nble guest