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Anne Bronta

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'The mist is resting on the hill	A
The smoke is hanging in the air	B
The very clouds are standing still	A
A breathless calm broods everywhere	B
Thou pilgrim through this vale of tears	C
Thou too a little moment cease	D
Thy anxious toil and fluttering fears	E
And rest thee for a while in peace '	F
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'I would but Time keeps working still	A
And moving on for good or ill	A
He will not rest or stay	G
In pain or ease in smiles or tears	C
He still keeps adding to my years	E
And stealing life away	G
His footsteps in the ceaseless sound	H
Of yonder clock I seem to hear	I
That through this stillness so profound	H
Distinctly strikes the vacant ear	I
For ever striding on and on	J
He pauses not by night or day	G
And all my life will soon be gone	K
As these past years have slipped away	G
He took my childhood long ago	L
And then my early youth and lo	L
He steals away my prime	M
I cannot see how fast it goes	N
But well my inward spirit knows	N
The wasting power of time '	-
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'Time steals thy moments drinks thy breath	O
Changes and wastes thy mortal frame	P
But though he gives the clay to death	O
He cannot touch the inward flame	P
Nay though he steals thy years away	G
Their memory is left thee still	A
And every month and every day	G
Leaves some effect of good or ill	A
The wise will find in Memory's store	Q
A help for that which lies before	Q
To guide their course aright	G
Then hush thy plaints and calm thy fears	E
Look back on these departed years	E
And say what meets thy sight '	-
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'I see far back a helpless child	G
Feeble and full of causeless fears	E
Simple and easily beguiled	G
To credit all it hears	R
More timid than the wild wood dove	S
Yet trusting to another's care	B
And finding in protecting love	S
Its only refuge from despair	B
Its only balm for every woe	L
The only bliss its soul can know	L
Still hiding in its breast	G
A tender heart too prone to weep	T
A love so earnest strong and deep	T
It could not be expressed	G
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Poor helpless thing what can it do	G
Life's stormy cares and toils among	U
How tread this weary desert through	G
That awes the brave and tires the strong	V
Where shall it centre so much trust	G
Where truth maintains so little sway	G
Where seeming fruit is bitter dust	G
And kisses oft to death betray	G
How oft must sin and falsehood grieve	W
A heart so ready to believe	W
And willing to admire	X
With strength so feeble fears so strong	V
Amid this selfish bustling throng	V
How will it faint and tire	Y
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That tender love so warm and deep	T
How can it flourish here below	L
What bitter floods of tears must steep	T
The stony soil where it would grow	L
O earth a rocky breast is thine	Z
A hard soil and a cruel clime	P
Where tender plants must droop and pine	Z
Or alter with transforming time	P
That soul that clings to sympathy	A2
As ivy clasps the forest tree	A2
How can it stand alone	B2
That heart so prone to overflow	L
E'en at the thought of others' woe	L
How will it bear its own	B2
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How if a sparrow's death can wring	C2
Such bitter tear floods from the eye	D2
Will it behold the suffering	C2
Of struggling lost humanity	A2
The torturing pain the pining grief	E2
The sin degraded misery	A2
The anguish that defies relief '	-
	-
'Look back again What dost thou see '	-
	-
'I see one kneeling on the sod	G
With infant hands upraised to Heaven	F2
A young heart feeling after God	G
Oft baffled never backward driven	F2
Mistaken oft and oft astray	G
It strives to find the narrow way	G
But gropes and toils alone	B2
That inner life of strife and tears	C
Of kindling hopes and lowering fears	E
To none but God is known	B2
'Tis better thus for man would scorn	G2
Those childish prayers those artless cries	H2
That darkling spirit tossed and torn	G2
But God will not despise	H2
We may regret such waste of tears	C
Such darkly toiling misery	A2
Such 'wildering doubts and harrowing fears	E
Where joy and thankfulness should be	A2
But wait and Heaven will send relief	E2
Let patience have her perfect work	I2
Lo strength and wisdom spring from grief	E2
And joys behind afflictions lurk	I2
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It asked for light and it is heard	G
God grants that struggling soul repose	N
And guided by His holy word	G
It wiser than its teachers grows	N
It gains the upward path at length	J2
And passes on from strength to strength	J2
Leaning on Heaven the while	K2
Night's shades departing one by one	F2
It sees at last the rising sun	F2
And feels his cheering smile	K2
In all its darkness and distress	L2
For light it sought to God it cried	G
And through the pathless wilderness	M2
He was its comfort and its guide '	-
	-
'So was it and so will it be	A2
Thy God will guide and strengthen thee	A2
His goodness cannot fail	N2
The sun that on thy morning rose	N
Will light thee to the evening's close	O2
Whatever storms assail '	-
	-
'God alters not but Time on me	A2
A wide and wondrous change has wrought	G
And in these parted years I see	A2
Cause for grave care and saddening thought	G
I see that time and toil and truth	P2
An inward hardness can impart	G
Can freeze the generous blood of youth	P2
And steel full fast the tender heart '	-
	-
'Bless God for that divine decree	A2
That hardness comes with misery	A2
And suffering deadens pain	Q2
That at the frequent sight of woe	L
E'en Pity's tears forget to flow	L
If reason still remain	Q2
Reason with conscience by her side	G
But gathers strength from toil and truth	P2
And she will prove a surer guide	G
Than those sweet instincts of our youth	P2
Thou that hast known such anguish sore	Q
In weeping where thou couldst not bless	L2
Canst thou that softness so deplore	Q
That suffering shrinking tenderness	M2
Thou that hast felt what cankering care	B
A loving heart is doomed to bear	B
Say how canst thou regret	G
That fires unfed must fall away	G
Long droughts can dry the softest clay	G
And cold will cold beget '	-
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'Nay but 'tis hard to feel that chill	A
Come creeping o'er the shuddering heart	G
Love may be full of pain but still	A
'Tis sad to see it so depart	G
To watch that fire whose genial glow	L
Was formed to comfort and to cheer	R2
For want of fuel fading so	L
Sinking to embers dull and drear	R2
To see the soft soil turned to stone	B2
For lack of kindly showers	S2
To see those yearnings of the breast	G
Pining to bless and to be blessed	G
Drop withered frozen one by one	F2
Till centred in itself alone	B2
It wastes its blighted powers	S2
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Oh I have known a wondrous joy	T2
In early friendship's pure delight	G
A genial bliss that could not cloy	T2
My sun by day my moon by night	G
Absence indeed was sore distress	L2
And thought of death was anguish keen	U2
And there was cruel bitterness	M2
When jarring discords rose between	U2
And sometimes it was grief to know	L
My fondness was but half returned	G
But this was nothing to the woe	L
With which another truth was learned	G
That I must check or nurse apart	G
Full many an impulse of the heart	G
And many a darling thought	G
What my soul worshipped sought and prized	G
Were slighted questioned or despised	G
This pained me more than aught	G
And as my love the warmer glowed	G
The deeper would that anguish sink	V2
That this dark stream between us flowed	G
Though both stood bending o'er its brink	V2
Until as last I learned to bear	R2
A colder heart within my breast	G
To share such thoughts as I could share	R2
And calmly keep the rest	G
I saw that they were sundered now	W2
The trees that at the root were one	F2
They yet might mingle leaf and bough	W2
But still the stems must stand alone	B2
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O love is sweet of every kind	G
'Tis sweet the helpless to befriend	G
To watch the young unfolding mind	G
To guide to shelter and defend	G
To lavish tender toil and care	R2
And ask for nothing back again	X2
But that our smiles a blessing bear	R2
And all our toil be not in vain	Q2
And sweeter far than words can tell	Y2
Their love whose ardent bosoms swell	Y2
With thoughts they need not hide	G
Where fortun	Q2