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HIS LYRE IS NOW ATTUNED ONLY TO WOE.
The eyes, the face, the limbs of heavenly mould, / So long the theme of my impassion'd lay, / Charms which so stole me from myself away, / That strange to other men the course I hold; / The crisped locks of pure and lucid gold, / The lightning of the angelic smile, whose ray / To earth could all of paradise convey, / A little dust are now! -- to feeling cold! / And yet I live! -- but that I live bewail, / Sunk the loved light that through the tempest led / My shatter'd bark, bereft of mast and sail: / Hush'd be for aye the song that breathed love's fire! / Lost is the theme on which my fancy fed, / And turn'd to mourning my once tuneful lyre.