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40 Literary Gazette, 29th March 1823, Page 203-204 (Songs)

The dream on the pillow That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away;

The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea: Aye—ask thine own bosom— Are emblems of thee.

When I trust the dark waters, And tempests are near, List the blue sea's false daughters, And think not on fear—

Oh then I'll believe thee As once I believed, Nor dread thou'lt deceive me    As thou hast deceived.

When the rose blooms at Christmas I'll trust thee again, Or the snow falls in summer,— But never till then!