PROPHECY II
by: Lucretia Davidson (1808-1825)
- (Written in her sixteenth year.)
- HAVE told a maiden of hours of
grief;
- Of a bleeding heart, of a joyless life;
- I have read her a tale of future woe;
- I have marked her a pathway of sorrow below;
- I have read on the page of her blooming cheek,
- A darker doom than my tongue dare speak.
- Now, maiden, for thee, I will turn mine eye
- To a brighter path through futurity.
- The clouds shall pass from thy brow away,
- And bright be the closing of life's long day;
- The storms shall murmur in silence to sleep,
- And angels around thee their watches shall keep;
- Thou shall live in the sunbeams of love and delight,
- And thy life shall flow on till it fades into night;
- And the twilight of age shall come quietly on;
- Thou wilt feel, yet regret not, that daylight hath flown;
- For the shadows of evening shall melt o'er thy soul,
- And the soft dreams of Heaven around thee shall roll,
- Till sinking in sweet, dreamless slumber to rest,
- In the arms of thy loved one, still blessing and blest,
- Thy soul shall glide on to its harbour in Heaven,
- Every tear wiped away every error forgiven.
"Prophecy II" is reprinted
from Poetical Remains of the Late Lucretia Maria Davidson,
Collected and Arranged by Her Mother. Lucretia Maria Davidson.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. |
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