To Human Life; As Compared With The Moon
O Life ! how like the Planet of the sky,
Still varying as the passing moments fly!
Hope the increase, destroying Care the wain:
Say, will thy change recall each happy hour,
The faded joys of my fond youth restore,
Or give me back my wonted peace again?
Ah no! — returning moons shall roll in vain,
Their lustre fade, her orb resume its ray;
But no returning light shall e'er display
Its cheering beam to glad my sorr'wing heart:
So deep the night, that (friends and fortune lost,
E LIZA gone! my last and dearest boast,)
Now throws its dreary gloom my path athwart;
And tells me, I and Mis'ry ne'er, on earth, must part.
Still varying as the passing moments fly!
Hope the increase, destroying Care the wain:
Say, will thy change recall each happy hour,
The faded joys of my fond youth restore,
Or give me back my wonted peace again?
Ah no! — returning moons shall roll in vain,
Their lustre fade, her orb resume its ray;
But no returning light shall e'er display
Its cheering beam to glad my sorr'wing heart:
So deep the night, that (friends and fortune lost,
E LIZA gone! my last and dearest boast,)
Now throws its dreary gloom my path athwart;
And tells me, I and Mis'ry ne'er, on earth, must part.
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