Peace! what do tears avail?
Barry Cornwall
1787 to 1874
Track 1
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The spirit of lovely life is fading,
The Angels lie.
Wilt bear her there, O Death! in all her whiteness?
Reply, reply!
’Midst pain, and grief, and wrong?
Peace! what do tears avail?
Reply, reply!
Death! Take her to thine arms,
And from her eye
And hopeless lie?
Hath she not dwelt too long
And she must die!
Why suffer again her doom of sorrow,
In all her stainless charms,
Why looks the lover wroth? the friend upbraiding?
To heavenly haunts, where, clad in brightness,
Then, why not die?
Reply, reply!
And with her fly
She lies all dumb and pale,
Why nurse the trembling dream until to-morrow?
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