Oh! had I ne'er beheld thee
How calm my life had flown!
As cold, as pure and tranquil
As some fair vale unknown;
Where never yet the footsteps
Of wand'ring man has stray'd;
That smiles in lonely beauty
Unheeded-unsurve'd.
How cheerfully the moments
In sweet content went by,
When sorrow's cloud pass'd swiftly
Across a placid sky:
The charm of peace is broken-
Can nought its dream restore?
That sky, obscured by sadness,
Shall ne'er be cloudless more.
Song.-oh, Had I Ne'er Beheld Thee
Louisa Stuart Costello
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Poem topics: beauty, cloud, dream, life, lonely, never, peace, sorrow, sweet, cold, unknown, pure, broken, charm, stray, restore, sky, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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