Poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Lines Written for the Album at Rosanna

O, LIGHTLY tread through these deep chestnut bowers,
  Where a sweet spirit once in beauty moved!
And touch with reverent hand these leaves and flowers,—
  Fair things, which well a gentle heart hath loved!
A gentle heart, of love and grief the abode,
Whence the bright stream of song in tear-drops flowed.

And bid its memory sanctify the scene!
  And let the ideal presence of the dead
Float round, and touch the woods with softer green,
  And o’er the streams a charm, like moonlight, shed,
Through the soul’s depths in holy silence felt,—
A spell to raise, to chasten, and to melt!

1. Taliesin’s Prophecy
2. Druid Chorus on the Landing of the Romans
3. Our Lady’s Well
4. The Dial of Flowers
5. The Bell at Sea

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