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life - anna laetitia barbauld lyrics

life! i know not what thou art
but know that thou and i must part;
and when, or how, or where we met
i own to me’s a secret yet
but this i know, when thou art fled
where’er they lay these limbs, this head
no clod so valueless shall be
as all that then remains of me
o whither, whither dost thou fly
where bend unseen thy trackless course
and in this strange divorce
ah tell where i must seek this compound i?

to the vast ocean of empyreal flame
from whence thy essence came
dost thou thy flight pursue, when freed
from matter’s base enc-mbering weed?
or dost thou, hid from sight
wait, like some spell-bound knight
through blank oblivious years th’ appointed hour
to break thy trance and re-ssume thy power?
yet canst thou without thought or feeling be?
o say what art thou, when no more thou ’rt thee?

life! we’ve been long together
through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
’tis hard to part when friends are dear;
perhaps ’t will cost a sigh, a tear;
then steal away, give little warning
choose thine own time;
say not good night, but in some brighter clime
bid me good morning

- anna laetitia barbauld lyrics

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