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Cozzens, Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout), 1818-1869 [1853], Prismatics. Illustrated with wood engravings from designs by Elliott, Darley, Kensett, Hicks, and Rossiter. (D. Appleton & Company, New York) [word count] [eaf527T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
RENDERED FROM THE SPANISH OF J. Q. SUZARTE. Pretty Niña, why this sorrow In thy life's auspicious morning? Must thy cheek its paleness borrow From the ashen hues of sorrow, When thy youth's bright day is dawning? Why with hidden ill repineth That pure virgin heart of thine? Heart where grace and love combineth, Free from stain, as star that shineth Through the azure crystalline. Why should eyes like thine be shrouded In their tearful radiate fringes? Eyes, whose brightness when unclouded
Shineth like the moon unshrouded, When her beams the lakelet tinges. Thou, in thy sweet pensive dolor, Still more beauteous seem'st to me: Ah, I see the truant color Chase the gloomy shades of dolor From my bright divinity! Tranquil in thy peace thou sleepest, While those waxen-lidded eyes Closed upon the world thou keepest, And thy soul in rapture steepest With the angel melodies. In thy tender heart are blended Sinless grief, and resignation Calm and placid: though unfriended, Soon thy suffering will be ended, Soon restored thy animation. In thy cheek the lucid blushes Will return to embellish all; Soon thy lily forehead flushes Underneath the rosy blushes Of the virgin coronal.
What from grief brings ever pleasure? What content, from woe and pain? What turns losses into treasure, Bringing blisses without measure To the sorrowed heart again? `Hope!' my Niña—`Hope,' beloved! Beautiful, beneficent, Lo! your griefs are soon remeved, Lo! your faith and virtue proved, And the bitter woe is spent.
Cozzens, Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout), 1818-1869 [1853], Prismatics. Illustrated with wood engravings from designs by Elliott, Darley, Kensett, Hicks, and Rossiter. (D. Appleton & Company, New York) [word count] [eaf527T]. |
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