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I know a cliff whose steep and craggy brow	A
O'erlooks the troubled ocean and spurns back	B
The advancing billow from its rugged base	C
Yet many a goodly rood of land lies deep	D
Beneath the wild wave buried which rolls on	E
Its course exulting o'er the prostrate towers	F
Of high cathedral church and abbey fair	G
Lifting its loud and everlasting voice	H
Over the ruins which its depths enshroud	I
As if it called on Time to render back	B
The things that were and give to life again	J
All that in dark oblivion sleeps below	K
Perched on the summit of that lofty cliff	L
A time worn edifice o'erlooks the wave	M
Which greets the fisher's home returning bark	N
And the young seaman checks his blithesome song	O
To hail the lonely ruin from the deep	D
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Majestic in decay that roofless pile	P
Survives the wreck of ages rising still	Q
A mournful beacon o'er the sea of time	R
The lonely record of departed years	S
Yes those who view that ruin feel an awe	T
Sink in the heart like those who look on death	U
For the first time and hear within the soul	V
A voice of warning whisper Thus e'en thus	W
All human glories perish rent from time	R
And swallowed up in that unmeasured void	X
O'er which oblivion rolls his sable tide	Y
Such thoughts as these that moss grown pile calls forth	Z
To those who gaze upon its shattered walls	A2
Or musing tread its grass grown aisles or pause	B2
To contemplate the wide and barren heath	C2
Spreading in rude magnificence around	D2
With scarce a tree or shrub to intersect	E2
Its gloomy aspect save the noble ash	F2
That fronts the ruins on whose hoary trunk	G2
The hurricanes of years have vainly burst	H2
To mar its beauty there sublime it stands	I2
Waving its graceful branches o'er the soil	J2
That wraps the mouldering children of the land	K2
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The shadowy splendour of an autumn sky	L2
Was radiant with the hues of parting day	M2
The glorious sun seemed loth to leave the west	N2
That glowed like molten gold a saffron sea	O2
Fretted with crimson billows whose rich tints	P2
Gave to the rugged cliff and barren heath	C2
A ruddy diadem of living light	Q2
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Hark 'tis the lonely genius of the place	C
Sighs through the wind stirred branches and bewails	C
Its desolation to the moaning blast	R2
That sweeps the ivy on the dark gray walls	C
No 'twas a sound of bitter agony	O2
Wrung from the depths of some o'erburdened heart	S2
Which in life's early morning had received	T2
A sad inheritance of sighs and tears	C
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Starting I turned and seated on the ground	D2
Beside the broken altar I beheld	D2
A female figure whose fantastic dress	C
And hair enwreathed with sprigs of ash and yew	U2
Bespoke a mind in ruins On her brow	A
Despair had stamped his iron seal her cheek	V2
Was pale as moonlight on the misty wave	M
Her hollow eyes were fixed on vacancy	O2
Or wildly sent their hurried glances round	D2
With quick impatient gesture as in quest	D2
Of some loved object present to her mind	D2
But shut for ever from her longing view	U2
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The sun went down She slowly left her seat	D2
And cast one long sad look upon the wave	M
Then poured the anguish of her breaking heart	D2
In a low plaintive strain of melody	O2
That rose and died away upon the breeze	C
The mournful requiem of her perished hopes	C
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Hark the restless spirits of ocean sigh	L2
I can hear them speak as the wind sweeps by	L2
See the ivy has heard their mystic call	W2
And shivering clings to the broken wall	W2
The dark green leaves take a sadder shade	D2
And the flowers turn pale and begin to fade	D2
The landscape grows dim in the deepening gloom	X2
And the dead awake in the silent tomb	X2
I have watched the return of my true love's bark	N
From the sun's uprising till midnight dark	N
I have watched and wept through the weary day	D2
But his ship on the deep is far away	D2
I have gazed for hours on the whitening track	B
Of the pathless waters and called him back	B
But my voice returned on the moaning blast	D2
And the vessel I sought still glided past	D2
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We parted on just such a lovely night	D2
The billows were tossing in cloudless light	D2
And the full bright moon on the waters slept	D2
And the stars above us their vigils kept	D2
And the surges whispered a lullaby	L2
As low and as sweet as a lover's sigh	L2
And he promised as gently he pressed my hand	D2
He would soon return to his native land	D2
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But long months have fled and this burning brain	Y2
Is seared with weeping and watching in vain	Y2
A dark dark shade on my bosom lies	C
And nights of sorrow have dimmed these eyes	C
The roses have fled from my pallid cheek	V2
And the grief that I feel no words can speak	V2
I have made my home with the graves of the dead	D2
And the cold earth pillows my aching head	D2
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He will come he will come I know it now	A
The waves are dancing before his prow	A
He comes to speak peace to my aching heart	D2
To tell me we never again shall part	D2
I can hear his voice in the freshening breeze	C
As his bark glides o'er the rippling seas	C
And my heart will break forth into laughter and song	O
When I lead him back through the gazing throng	O
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Ah no where yon shade on the water lies	C
The slow rising moon deceives my eyes	C
And the tide of sorrow within my breast	D2
Rolls on like the billows that never rest	D2
I will look no more on the heaving deep	D
But return to my lowly bed and weep	D
He will come to my dreams in the darksome night	D2
And his bark will be here with the dawn of light	D2
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When the song ceased she turned her heavy eyes	C
With such a piteous glance upon my face	C
It pierced my heart and fast the gathering tears	C
Blinded my sight Alas poor maniac	B
For thee no hope shall dawn no tender thought	D2
Wake in thy blighted heart a thrill of joy	Z2
The immortal mind is levelled with the dust	D2
Ere the tenacious cords of life give way	D2
Hers was a common tale she early owned	D2
The ardent love that youthful spirits feel	A3
And gave her soul in blind idolatry	O2
To one dear object and his ship was lost	D2
In sight of port lost on the very morn	B3
That should have smiled upon their bridal rite	D2
She saw the dreadful accident like one	C3
Who saw it not and from that fatal hour	D3
All memory of it faded from her mind	D2
And still she watches for the distant sail	E3
Of him who never never can return	F3
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Poor stricken maid thy best affections	C
Thy hopes thy wishes centred all in earth	G3
Earth has repaid thee with a broken heart	D2
Love to thy God had known no rash excess	C
For in his service there is joy and peace	C
A light which on thy troubled mind had shed	D2
Its holy influence and those tearful eyes	C
Had then been raised in gratitude to heaven	C3
Nor chased delusive phantoms o'er the deep	D

Susanna Moodie

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