Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A BALLAD, by ANDRE HENRI CONSTANT VAN HASSELT


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A BALLAD, by                    
First Line: O restless swallow! Thou whose wings
Last Line: "down in their depths he lies asleep!"
Subject(s): Nature; Praise


"O restless Swallow! thou whose wings
Skim the gray clouds in sportive rings,
Hast thou beheld my own true knight?"
"Fair Dame! he has not blest my sight."

"Gay Lark! that soarest far on high,
A lessening speck amid the sky,
Say, hast thou marked the form I love?"
"My glance hath aye been turned above."

"Thou Wood! beneath whose leafy dome
Soft murmurs of the summer roam,
Here did my lover chance to stray?"
"No foot hath trod my paths to-day."

"Aerial Crag! on whose dim crest
The eagle strews her careless nest,
Hath horse or horseman met thine eye?"
"No cavalier hath ridden by."

"White foaming Torrent! tell me where
My warrior with the golden hair?
O'er thy dark waters did he leap?"
"Down in their depths he lies asleep!"





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