The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...
The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...
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<strong>The</strong> Salamanca Corpus: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Poetical</strong> <strong>Works</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Miss</strong> <strong>Susanna</strong> <strong>Blamire</strong> (<strong>1842</strong>)<br />
That seem’d like me to talk <strong>of</strong> woes,<br />
And lengthen out life’s weary dream,<br />
Which on like its dull current flows.<br />
Why dwells the soul on pleasures past?<br />
Why think I Marion once was true?<br />
Those fleeting joys that fled so fast,<br />
Why should fond fancy still renew?<br />
When fortune drove me far away,<br />
My heart, dear Marion, dwelt with thee;<br />
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E’en now methinks I hear thee say,—<br />
Wilt thou, dear youth, remember me?<br />
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O yes! I cried; no change <strong>of</strong> place,<br />
Nor favouring fortune’s better day,<br />
Can e’er erase thy lovely face,<br />
Or wear thy heart-stamp’d form away.<br />
Though mountains rise, and oceans roar,<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’ll prove but feeble bars to me;<br />
In soul I’ll seek my native shore,<br />
And wander every-where with thee.<br />
And still, dull absence to deceive,<br />
My thoughts fled to each former scene;<br />
And fancy fondly made believe<br />
I was again where once I’d been!<br />
I tended Marion s evening walk;<br />
We sat beneath the trysting tree;<br />
I saw her smile, and heard her talk,<br />
And vow to love and live for me!<br />
But time and absence both conspir’d,<br />
And Marion’s truth forgot its vow;<br />
And Fashion many a wish acquir d,<br />
That turns to wants—we know not how.<br />
O Marion! could I e’er have thought<br />
That Splendour would have rivall’d me,<br />
This foolish heart I ne’er had taught<br />
To think, as it still thinks, on thee!