Chapter 150
to mary in heaven thou lingering star with lessening ray that lov'st to greet the early morn again thou usher'st in the day my mary from my soul was torn o mary dear departed shade where is thy place of blissful rest seest thou thy lover lowly laid hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast that sacred hour can i forget can i forget the hallowed grove where by the winding ire we met to live one day of parting love eternity will not efface those records dear of transports past thy image at our last embrace ah little thought we twas our last air gurgling kissed his pebbled shore o'erhung with wildwoods thickening green the fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar twined amorous round the raptured scene
the flowers sprang wanton to be pressed the birds sang love on every spray till too too soon the glowing west proclaimed the speed of winged day still o'er these scenes my memory wakes and fondly broods with miser care time but the impression deeper makes as dreams their channels deeper wear my mary dear departed shade where is thy blissful place of rest seest thou thy lover lowly laid hearest thou the groans that rend his breast and of poem read by kerry adams your book voice at mesa arizona on the seventh of august two thousand twenty two this recording is in the public domain
