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/ I
The happiest day -- the happiest hour / My seared and blighted heart hath known, / The highest hope of pride and power, / I feel hath flown.
/ II
Of power! said I? Yes! such I ween / But they have vanished long, alas!
The visions of my youth have been --
But let them pass.
/ III
And pride, what have I now with thee?
Another brow may ev'n inherit / The venom thou hast poured on me --
Be still my spirit!
/ IV
The happiest day -- the happiest hour / Mine eyes shall see -- have ever seen / The brightest glance of pride and power / I feet have been:
/ V
But were that hope of pride and power / Now offered with the pain / Ev'n then I felt -- that brightest hour / I would not live again:
/ VI
For on its wing was dark alloy / And as it fluttered -- fell / An essence -- powerful to destroy / A soul that knew it well.