Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CAN IT BE STILL SO SWEET THE LIGHT TO VIEW, by ANTOINE FRANCOIS MARIE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND


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CAN IT BE STILL SO SWEET THE LIGHT TO VIEW, by                    
First Line: I thought life's close to find a glad release
Last Line: To the bright azure sky?
Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Anthony


I THOUGHT life's close to find a glad release
From pain long borne to fly!
Now death has come and bids my troubles cease,
I feel afraid to die.

What can, my God! what can this world contain
To which the heart so clings?
As pleasures do to this foul mire enchain,
So too can sufferings!

Can it be still so sweet the light to view
While to the tomb so nigh?
To lift the brow which the grave's ashes strew
To the bright azure sky?





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