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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1899)
MLMMttjTK r ir The Hesperian WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. STHNZKS FOR 7VCUSIC. There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay; 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past. Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess: The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again. Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down; It cannot feel for others' woes, it dare nor dream its own; That heavy chill has frozen o'er the fountain of our tears, And though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent lips and mirth distract the breast, Through midnight hours that yield no more their former hope of rest; 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath. Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept o'er many a vanish'd scene. As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would fiWto me. Lord Byron. faZ&il mt mm
