1 The sun is warm, the
sky is clear,
2 The waves are dancing
fast and bright,
3 Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
4 The purple noon's transparent
might,
5 The breath of the moist
earth is light,
6 Around its unexpanded buds;
7 Like many a voice of
one delight,
8 The winds, the birds, the ocean
floods,
9 The City's voice itself, is soft like Solitude's.
10 I see the Deep's untrampled floor
11 With green and purple seaweeds
strown;
12 I see the waves upon the shore,
13 Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown:
14 I sit upon the sands alone,--
15 The lightning of the noontide ocean
16 Is flashing round me, and a tone
17 Arises from its measured motion,
18 How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion.
19 Alas! I have nor hope nor health,
20 Nor peace within nor calm around,
21 Nor that content surpassing wealth
22 The sage in meditation found,
23 And walked with inward glory
crowned--
24 Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure.
25 Others I see whom these surround--
26 Smiling they live, and call life pleasure;
27 To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
28 Yet now despair itself is mild,
29 Even as the winds and waters are;
30 I could lie down like a tired child,
31 And weep away the life of care
32 Which I have borne and yet must
bear,
33 Till death like sleep might steal on me,
34 And I might feel in the warm air
35 My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea
36 Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
37 Some might lament that I were
cold,
38 As I, when this sweet day is gone,
39 Which my lost heart, too soon grown old,
40 Insults with this untimely moan;
41 They might lament--for I am one
42 Whom men love not,--and yet regret,
43 Unlike this day, which, when the
sun
44 Shall on its stainless glory set,
45 Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet.
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