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Literary Gazette, 29th June, 1822, Page 410

2. LOVE'S LAST WORDS. Light be around thee, hope be thy guide; Gay be thy bark, and smooth be the tide; Soft be the wind that beareth thee on, Sweet be thy welcome, thy wanderings done.

Bright be the hearth, may the eyes you love best Greet the long-absent again to his rest; Be thy life like glad music which floateth away As the gale lingering over the rose-tree in May.

But yet while thy moments in melody roll, Be one dark remembrance left on thy soul, Be the song of the evening thrice sad on thine ear— Then think how your twilights were past away here.

And yet let the shadow of sorrowing be Light as the dream of the morning to thee! One fond, faint recollection, one last sigh of thine May be granted to love so devoted as mine!