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The lake , till then , whose waters seem'd like gla »» «Appear'd of one accord to foam on high ; * * At length the wind was lull ' xl , appeas'd , arid still , The rain soon ceasing usher'd in the morn : Faint rays of light now deck'd the neighb ' ring hill , And nought had suffer'd by the last night ' s storm .
Has not the utterly common-place in the foregoing specimen , reached unrivalled perfection I One would think so ; but here is the effusion of another serious muse .
BE HAPPY NOW . BY CAROLINA PREDERICA BEAUCLERK . " Be happy now ! for thou ' lt ne ' er see me more ; These rending pangs will cease their throbs in death ; And though thou hast riven my bosom ' s core , I still must bless thee , with my dying breath .
I ne ' er can blame one I love so deeply , It is not love , — 'tis more like adoration ; But theu ' rtchanged ;—O God I I bear it meekly , Though my poor heart is suffering laceration .
l obattle then ! and when by foes I ' m slam , Will thine eye shine on in sunny gladness , Or will a pearly tear thy cheek bestain , And wilt thou own I lov'd thee unto madness . Great Heaven ! this grief is more than 1 can bear * This pallid cheek , this sunken-dying eye , Will brightly lustre at T > eattis glaring stare , When war ' s hoarse trumpets bray forth victory ! "—p . 173 .
A fine touch of pathos is g iven in the first and last lines of the opening stanza , evidently intended to show the self-devotion of dec ]) love , the character of which is fearfully expressed by the terrors of the other two lines . The next stanza is of similar construction , showing how passion delig hts to brood over the same objects , ideas , and emotions . The third is a demonstration of that wild despair so commonly following
disappointed passion in strong natures , and also of the organ of destruction , the large developement of which is thus with such exquisite delicacy conveyed . The expression of the 6 pearly tear' is a beautiful figure , palpably showing that the corresponding feeling has its origin in a far deeper source than ordinary tears ; in short , that it is drawn up from a deep sea of anguish . Perhaps this idea may have been surpassed in the previous poem , which contains c two pearly tears ; * but the difference , we submit , is rather in quantity than in ita
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Tales of * fashion and Reality * 401
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/11/
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