DISAPPOINTED HOPES. 55 
CYPRESS. 
' Cupressus. 
Language DISAPPOINTED HOPES. 
We parted in sadness, but spoke not of parting ; 
We talked not of hopes that we both must resign ; 
I saw not her eyes ; but one teardrop, starting. 
Fell down on her hand as it trembled in mine : 
Each felt that the past we could never recover ; 
Each felt that the future no hope could restore : 
She shuddered at wringing the heart of her lover, 
/dared not to say I must meet her no more. 
Long years have gone by, and the spring time smiles ever, 
As o'er our young loves it first smiled in their birth ; 
Long years have gone by, yet that parting, O, never 
Can it be forgotten by either on earth. 
The note of each wild bird, that carols towards heaven, 
Must tell' her of swift-winged hopes that were mine ; 
While the dew that steals over each blossom at even 
Tells me of the teardrop that wept their decline. 
The conflict is over, the struggle is past ; 
I have looked, I have loved, I have worshipped my last : 
Now back to the world, and let Fate do her worst 
On the heart that for thee such devotion has nursed. 
Of all afl[liction taught a lover yet, 
'Tis sure the hardest science to forget. 
Pope's Eloisa. 
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