Consolation

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * Track #300 On The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Consolation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Will then, Duperrier, thy sorrow be eternal?
&nbsp And shall the sad discourse
Whispered within thy heart, by tenderness paternal,
&nbsp Only augment its force?

Thy daughter's mournful fate, into the tomb descending
&nbsp By death's frequented ways,
Has it become to thee a labyrinth never ending,
&nbsp Where thy lost reason strays?

I know the charms that made her youth a benediction:
&nbsp Nor should I be content,
As a censorious friend, to solace thine affliction
&nbsp By her disparagement.

But she was of the world, which fairest things exposes
&nbsp To fates the most forlorn;
A rose, she too hath lived as long as live the roses,
&nbsp The space of one brief morn.

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Death has his rigorous laws, unparalleled, unfeeling;
&nbsp All prayers to him are vain;
Cruel, he stops his ears, and, deaf to our appealing,
&nbsp He leaves us to complain.

The poor man in his hut, with only thatch for cover,
&nbsp Unto these laws must bend;
The sentinel that guards the barriers of the Louvre
&nbsp Cannot our kings defend.

To murmur against death, in petulant defiance,
&nbsp Is never for the best;
To will what God doth will, that is the only science
&nbsp That gives us any rest.

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