But while I've thee before me, With heart so warm, and eyes so bright, No clouds can linger o'er me, Thy smile turns them all to light! "Tis not in fate to harm me, While fate leaves thy love to me; And though the hope be gone, love, Far better lights shall win me, The mind that burns within me, And pure smiles from thee at home. Thus, when the lamp that lighted He feels awhile benighted, And looks round, in fear and doubt. But soon the prospect clearing By cloudless star-light on he treads; As that light which Heaven sheds. 1 The following are some of the original words of this wild and singular air;-they contain rather an odd assortment of grievances. Cuishlih ma chree, Did you but see How, the rogue, he did serve me ;-Bis. But the true soul Burns the same, wherever it goes. Let fate frown on, so we love and part not! Tis life where thou art, 'tis death where thou art not! Then come o'er the sea; Maiden! with me,. Come wherever the wild wind blows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, wherever it Is not the sea Made for the free, goes. Land for courts and chains alone! Here we are slaves; But, on the waves, Love and Liberty's all our own! No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, Maiden! with me, Come wherever the wild wind blows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, wherever it goes. HAS SORROW THY YOUNG DAYS SHADED? AIR-Sly Patrick. Has sorrow thy young days shaded, I Has Love to that soul so tender Allured by the gleam that shone. I Our Wicklow Gold Mines, to which this verse alludes, deserve, I fear, the character here given of them. Ah! faise as the dream of the sleeper, Has Hope, like the bird in the story,' That flitted from tree to tree Has hope been that bird to thee? If thus the sweet hours nave fleeted, -- 1 « The Bird, having got its prize, settled not far off -with the talisman in its mouth. The prince drew near it, hoping it would drop it; but, as he approached, the bird took wing, and settled again,» etc.—Arabian Nights -Story of Kummir al Zummaun and the Princess of China. |