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First Line: How many years have passed away
Last Line: Eleonora.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


How many years have passed away
Since thy bloom was the bloom of May,
It puzzles me to think to-day,—
Eleonora.

Love found thee like a sweet surprise;
He looked from thy Italian's eyes
And brought the blush of Paradise,—
Eleonora.

None knoweth what the years may bring,
For joy is ever on the wing,
And trouble to the heart doth cling,—
Eleonora.

Sunk were thy eyes and white thy hair
When hope had yielded to despair,
And Sorrow's mantle thou didst wear,—
Eleonora.

But sorrow now to peace hath turned;
Its use is found, its lesson learned,
And sympathy no more is spurned,—
Eleonora.

Thy dreams no more the vision shun
Of boats adrift from sun to sun
And seamen dying one by one,—
Eleonora:

Of eyes within whose depths the flame
Of love was ashes when there came
No more from ashen lips thy name,—
Eleonora;

Of fever on a foreign shore;
Of prayers that call for thee no more;
Of dust thou never bendedst o'er,—
Eleonora.

The sea and death their eyelids press;
The sea and death wrought thy distress;
The sea and death are pitiless,—
Eleonora.

Husband and son to thee were given;
Husband and son from thee were riven;
Now thy affections are in heaven,—
Eleonora.

Affliction is not all in vain;
Loss understood becometh gain;
An angel's is the face of Pain,—
Eleonora.

Death will no more life's trust betray;
Youth hath returned to thee for aye:
The cruel sea hath passed away,—
Eleonora.





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