After-Though
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide, / As being past away. -Vain sympathies!
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide, / As being past away. -Vain sympathies!
Flower in the crannied wall, / I pluck you out of the crannies,
Is it, then, regret for buried time / ; ; ; ;That keenlier in sweet April wakes,
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, / ; ; Thy tribute wave deliver: