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I cannot say, in Eastern style, Where’er she treads the pansy blows; Nor call her eyes twin-stars, her smile A sunbeam, and her mouth a rose. Nor can I, as your bridegrooms do, Talk of my raptures. Oh, how sore The fond romance of twenty-two Is parodied ere thirty-four! To-night I shake hands with the past,— Familiar years, adieu, adieu! An unknown door is open cast, An empty future wide and new Stands waiting. O ye naked rooms, Void, desolate, without a charm, Will Love’s smile chase your lonely glooms, And drape your walls, and make them warm?
I cannot say, in Eastern style, Where’er she treads the pansy blows; Nor call her eyes twin-stars, her smile A sunbeam, and her mouth a rose. Nor can I, as your bridegrooms do, Talk of my raptures. Oh, how sore The fond romance of twenty-two Is parodied ere thirty-four! To-night I shake hands with the past,— Familiar years, adieu, adieu! An unknown door is open cast, An empty future wide and new Stands waiting. O ye naked rooms, Void, desolate, without a charm, Will Love’s smile chase your lonely glooms, And drape your walls, and make them warm?
Approximate author period: c. 1848 AD · industrial
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- Alexander Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1848 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 230 · printed citation: Alexander Smith (1830-1867) (The Night before the Wedding). · compiler notes excluded
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