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Oh sigh mots for thy gentle heart

Was mever made to weeps Let tendermess its balm imparts And soothe thy cares asleepe Yet sighs and smile, and let thine

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Beam love?'s pure rays divines But give me all asks prizes

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The bliss to call thee

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Oh sigh not, for thy gentle heart Was never made to weep, Let tenderness its balm impart,

And soothe thy cares asleep.

Yet sigh, and smile, and let thine eyes Beam love's pure rays divine,

But give me all I ask, I prize,

The bliss to call thee mine.

THE LILY.

BY MRS. TIGHE. How withered,perished,seemsthe form Of yon obscure,unsightly root: Yet from the blight of wintry storm, It hides secure the precious fruit.

The careless eye can find no grace, No beauty in the scaly folds, Nor see within the dark embrace What latentlovelinessit holds.

Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest, Till vernal suns and vernal gales Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.

Yes, hide beneath the mouldering heap The undelightings lighted thing: There, in the cold earth buried deep, In silence let it wait the spring.

Oh! many a stormy night shall close In gloom upon the barren earth, While still in undisturbed repose, Uninjured lies the future birth.

And Ignorance, with sceptic eye, Hope's patient smile shall wondering view; Or mock her fond credulity, As her soft tears the spot bedev, REMEMBER ME: REMEMBER me, In the noon's bright hour, when light and life Are spread by the golden sun; When the trees and ſlowers with sweets are rife: When the task of the day is done, Remember me!

In the sacred repose,and the stillness of night, When all is at peace in the vale; And the earth and the waters reflect the moon's light, And you list to the nightingale, Remember me!

When you join in the throng that in rapture's gay halls, Awaken each impulse divine; And the incense of homage to loveliness falls At thy own fair and radiant shrine, Remember me!

When another one's hand in the dance's wild maze, Enrapturedly presses your own; When your beauties,revealed to another one's gaze, Remember me!
 * Inspire another’s love tone,

In those happy moments so brilliant and gay, When time on joy’s light pinions files, Ah, then think of him, who though far, far away, Still blesses his Julia, and sighs, Remember me!