Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (Каролина Нортон)

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WE have been friends together,
   In sunshine and in shade;
Since first beneath the chestnut-trees
   In infancy we played.
But coldness dwells within thy heart,
   A cloud is on thy brow;
We have been friends together—
   Shall a light word part us now?

We have been gay together;
   We have laugh’d at little jests;
For the fount of hope was gushing
   Warm and joyous in our breasts.
But laughter now hath fled thy lip,
   And sullen glooms thy brow;
We have been gay together—
   Shall a light word part us now?

We have been sad together,
   We have wept, with bitter tears,
O’er the grass-grown graves, where slumber’d
   The hopes of early years.
The voices which are silent there
   Would bid thee clear thy brow;
We have been sad together—
   Oh! what shall part us now? 

1. The Chapel Royal St. James’s, on the 10th February, 1840
2. Sonnet 13. LITTLE they think, the giddy and the vain
3. Sonnet 5. BECAUSE I know that there is that in me
4. Sonnet 9. WHEN our young Queen put on her rightful crown
5. The Fever-Dream

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