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, far is mirth withdrawn;

'Tis three long hours before the morn,

And I watch lonely, drearily;

So come, thou shade, commune with me.

Deserted one! thy corpse lies cold

And mingled with a foreign mould.

Year after year the grass grows green

Above the dust where thou hast been.

I will not name thy blighted name,

Tarnished by unforgotten shame,

Though not because my bosom torn

Joins the mad world in all its scorn.

Thy phantom face is dark with woe,

Tears have left ghastly traces there,

Those ceaseless tears! I wish their flow

Could quench thy wild despair.

They deluge my heart like the rain

On cursed Zamornah's howling plain.

Yet when I hear thy foes deride,

I must cling closely to thy side.

Our mutual foes! They will not rest

From trampling on thy buried breast.

Glutting their hatred with the doom,

They picture thine beyond the tomb.