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Du Heilige rufe dein Kind zur ch habe genossen das irdische Gl ch habe gelebt und geliebet	A
Wallenstein	B
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The woods oh solemn are the boundless woods	C
Of the great Western World when day declines	D
And louder sounds the roll of distant floods	E
More deep the rustling of the ancient pines	D
When dimness gathers on the stilly air	F
And mystery seems o'er every leaf to brood	A
Awful it is for human heart to bear	F
The might and burden of the solitude	A
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Yet in that hour midst those green wastes there sate	A
One young and fair and oh how desolate	A
But undismay'd while sank the crimson light	A
And the high cedars darken'd with the night	A
Alone she sate tho' many lay around	A
They pale and silent on the bloody ground	A
Were sever'd from her need and from her wo	G
Far as Death severs Life O'er that wild spot	A
Combat had rag'd and brought the valiant low	G
And left them with the history of their lot	A
Unto the forest oaks A fearful scene	H
For her whose home of other days had been	I
Midst the fair halls of England but the love	J
Which fill'd her soul was strong to cast out fear	K
And by its might upborne all else above	J
She shrank not mark'd not that the dead were near	K
Of him alone she thought whose languid head	A
Faintly upon her wedded bosom fell	L
Memory of aught but him on earth was fled	A
While heavily she felt his life blood well	L
Fast o'er her garments forth and vainly bound	A
With her torn robe and hair the streaming wound	A
Yet hoped still hoped Oh from such hope how long	M
Affection wooes the whispers that deceive	N
Ev'n when the pressure of dismay grows strong	M
And we that weep watch tremble ne'er believe	N
The blow indeed can fall So bow'd she there	F
Over the dying while unconscious prayer	F
Fill'd all her soul Now pour'd the moonlight down	O
Veining the pine stems thro' the foliage brown	O
And fire flies kindling up the leafy place	P
Cast fitful radiance o'er the warrior's face	P
Whereby she caught its changes to her eye	Q
The eye that faded look'd through gathering haze	R
Whence love o'ermastering mortal agony	S
Lifted a long deep melancholy gaze	R
When voice was not that fond sad meaning pass'd	A
She knew the fulness of her wo at last	A
One shriek the forests heard and mute she lay	T
And cold yet clasping still the precious clay	T
To her scarce heaving breast O Love and Death	U
Ye have sad meetings on this changeful earth	V
Many and sad but airs of heavenly breath	U
Shall melt the links which bind you for your birth	V
Is far apart	A
Now light of richer hue	W
Than the moon sheds came flushing mist and dew	W
The pines grew red with morning fresh winds play'd	A
Bright colour'd birds with splendour cross'd the shade	A
Flitting on flower like wings glad murmurs broke	X
From reed and spray and leaf the living strings	Y
Of Earth's Eolian lyre whose music woke	X
Into young life and joy all happy things	Y
And she too woke from that long dreamless trance	Z
The widow'd Edith fearfully her glance	Z
Fell as in doubt on faces dark and strange	A2
And dusky forms A sudden sense of change	A2
Flash'd o'er her spirit ev'n ere memory swept	A
The tide of anguish back with thoughts that slept	A
Yet half instinctively she rose and spread	A
Her arms as 'twere for something lost or fled	A
Then faintly sank again The forest bough	B2
With all its whispers wav'd not o'er her now	B2
Where was she Midst the people of the wild	A
By the red hunter's fire an aged chief	C2
Whose home look'd sad for therein play'd no child	A
Had borne her in the stillness of her grief	C2
To that lone cabin of the woods and there	F
Won by a form so desolately fair	F
Or touch'd with thoughts from some past sorrow sprung	D2
O'er her low couch an Indian matron hung	D2
While in grave silence yet with earnest eye	Q
The ancient warrior of the waste stood by	Q
Bending in watchfulness his proud grey head	A
And leaning on his bow	B2
And life return'd	A
Life but with all its memories of the dead	A
To Edith's heart and well the sufferer learn'd	A
Her task of meek endurance well she wore	E2
The chasten'd grief that humbly can adore	E2
Midst blinding tears But unto that old pair	F
Ev'n as a breath of spring's awakening air	F
Her presence was or as a sweet wild tune	F2
Bringing back tender thoughts which all too soon	F2
Depart with childhood Sadly they had seen	H
A daughter to the land of spirits go	G
And ever from that time her fading mien	H
And voice like winds of summer soft and low	G
Had haunted their dim years but Edith's face	P
Now look'd in holy sweetness from her place	P
And they again seem'd parents Oh the joy	G2
The rich deep blessedness tho' earth's alloy	G2
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Fear that still bodes be there of pouring forth	H2
The heart's whole power of love its wealth and worth	V
Of strong affection in one healthful flow	G
On something all its own that kindly glow	G
Which to shut inward is consuming pain	I2
Gives the glad soul its flowering time again	J2
When like the sunshine freed And gentle cares	K2
Th' adopted Edith meekly gave for theirs	K2
Who lov'd her thus her spirit dwelt the while	L2
With the departed and her patient smile	L2
Spoke of farewells to earth yet still she pray'd	A
Ev'n o'er her soldier's lowly grave for aid	A
One purpose to fulfil to leave one trace	P
Brightly recording that her dwelling place	P
Had been among the wilds for well she knew	W
The secret whisper of her bosom true	W
Which warn'd her hence	M2
And now by many a word	A
Link'd unto moments when the heart was stirr'd	A
By the sweet mournfulness of many a hymn	N2
Sung when the woods at eve grew hush'd and dim	N2
By the persuasion of her fervent eye	Q
All eloquent with child like piety	S
By the still beauty of her life she strove	O2
To win for heaven and heaven born truth the love	J
Pour'd out on her so freely Nor in vain	I2
Was that soft breathing influence to enchain	I2
The soul in gentle bonds by slow degrees	P2
Light follow'd on as when a summer breeze	P2
Parts the deep masses of the forest shade	A
And lets the sunbeam through her voice was made	A
Ev'n such a breeze and she a lowly guide	A
By faith and sorrow rais'd and purified	A
So to the Cross her Indian fosterers led	A
Until their prayers were one When morning spread	A
O'er the blue lake and when the sunset's glow	G
Touch'd into golden bronze the cypress bough	B2
And when the quiet of the Sabbath time	Q2
Sank on her heart tho' no melodious chime	Q2
Waken'd the wilderness their prayers were one	I2
Now might she pass in hope her work was done	I2
And she was passing from the woods away	T
The broken flower of England might not stay	T
Amidst those alien shades her eye was bright	A
Ev'n yet with something of a starry light	A
But her form wasted and her fair young cheek	R2
Wore oft and patiently a fatal streak	R2
A rose whose root was death The parting sigh	Q
Of autumn thro' the forests had gone by	Q
And the rich maple o'er her wanderings lone	I2
Its crimson leaves in many a shower had strown	I2
Flushing the air and winter's blast had been	I2
Amidst the pines and now a softer green	I2
Fring'd their dark boughs for spring again had come	S2
The sunny spring but Edith to her home	T2
Was journeying fast Alas we think it sad	A
To part with life when all the earth looks glad	A
In her young lovely things when voices break	U2
Into sweet sounds and leaves and blossoms wake	U2
Is it not brighter then in that far clime	T2
Where graves are not nor blights of changeful time	T2
If here such glory dwell with passing blooms	V2
Such golden sunshine rest around the tombs	V2
So thought the dying one 'Twas early day	T
And sounds and odours with the breezes' play	T
Whispering of spring time thro' the cabin door	E2
Unto her couch life's farewell sweetness bore	E2
Then with a look where all her hope awoke	X
'My father ' to the grey hair'd chief she spoke	X
'Know'st thou that I depart ' 'I know I know '	-
He answer'd mournfully 'that thou must go	G
To thy belov'd my daughter ' 'Sorrow not	A
For me kind mother ' with meek smiles once more	E2
She murmur'd in low tones 'one happy	S

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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