Some might lament that I were cold, As I, when this sweet day is gone, Which my lost heart, too soon grown old, Insults with this untimely moan; 40 They might lament--for I am one Whom men love not, and yet regret; Unlike this day, which, when the sun Shall on its stainless glory set, Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. 45 _Percy Bysshe Shelley._ CCXXIX _DESPONDENCY REBUKED._ Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; 5 It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e’en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, 10 Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, 15 But westward, look, the land is bright. _Arthur Hugh Clough._ CCXXX _THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS._ Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber’s chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears 5 Of boyhood’s years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken! 10 Thus in the stilly light Ere slumber’s chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me. When I remember all 15 The friends so linked together I’ve seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone 20 Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed! Thus in the stilly night 25 Ere slumber’s chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me. _Thomas Moore._ CCXXXI _DIRGE._ If thou wilt ease thine heart Of love, and all its smart-- Then sleep, dear, sleep! And not a sorrow Hang any tear on your eyelashes; 5 Lie still and deep, Sad soul, until the sea-wave washes The rim o’ the sun to-morrow In Eastern sky.