Page:Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 20 1827.pdf/18



It is but dust thou look'st upon. This love, This wild and passionate idolatry, What doth it in the shadow of the grave? Gather it back within thy lonely heart, So must it ever end. Too much we give Unto the things that perish."

night-wind shook the tapestry round an ancient palace-room, And torches, as it rose and fell, waved through the gorgeous gloom, And o'er a shadowy regal couch threw fitful gleams and red, Where a Woman with long raven hair sat watching by the dead.