Chapter 39 No.39

Sonnet

[Published in Friendships Offering: a Literary Album for 1832. London: Smith and Elder.]

Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh:

Thy woes are birds of passage, transitory:

Thy spirit, circled with a living glory,

In summer still a summer joy resumeth.

Alone my hopeless melancholy gloometh,

Like a lone cypress, through

            
            

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