The Elixir of Youth
by John Lodge Ellerton (9781458879479)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. THE VOICES OP THE PAST. Where are the voices of the Past, that long have died away? The bright dreams of the golden time of childhood's early day The kindly looks and tones that haunt, in vain, the yearning heart? The friends so loved from whom we soon, too soon', were doomed to part ? We may not know, and none shall tell, where dwell the loved and kind? The friends of old, whose memory lives within the heart enshrined? Who once knew all our secret thoughts, and soothed each passing care? With whom we dwelt in holy love, and knelt in silent prayer ? Who oft in voiceless reverie, for words to speak too deep, Would soar with us to realms afar, beyond yon azure steep? Ah where are they whose memories live deep-graven in the breast, And whom with many a bitter tear, we lost when loved the best ? Be sure that where the shadow rests the form still lingers near; And they whose influence awes thy soul, in death still hold thee dear: And deem not those who knew with thee life's fair and fleeting morn, Have vanished into gloomy night, from light and heing torn. We pour the red and glowing draught?it leaves no trace behind? We break the cup?the fragments fly upon the viewless wind: But love is as the light of day, which, though it disappears, Still beams perchance unknown to us 'mid bright and distant spheres STANZAS ON A STATUE OF DIANA AT THE LOUVRE. From what fair land of poesy wert thou brought, A messenger of elder Time ? Thou seem'st to beckon from an age remote, Whose very fragments are sublime. Cam'st thou from where the blue Egean wave Once mirrored in its depths the cities of the brave ? Or from Trinacria's ever fertile shore, Laved by the immemorial sea, Whose waters on their breast once proudly bore The c...

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