To One in Paradise (Despair's Rage) Lyrics

Thou wast all that to me, love

For which my soul did pine

A green isle in the sea, love

A fountain and a shrine

All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers

And all the flowers were mine

Ah, dream too bright to last!

Ah, starry hope that didst arise

But to be overcast!

A voice from out the Future cries

"On! on!"—but o'er the Past

Dim gulf! my spirit hovering lies

Mute, motionless, aghast!

For, alas! alas! with me

The light of Life is o'er!

No more—no more—no more

Such language holds the solemn sea

To the sands upon the shore

Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree

Or the stricken eagle soar!

Ah, dream too bright to last!

Ah, starry hope that didst arise

But to be overcast!

A voice from out the Future cries

"On! on!"—but o'er the Past

Dim gulf! my spirit hovering lies

Mute, motionless, aghast!

For, alas! alas! with me

The light of Life is o'er!

No more—no more—no more

Such language holds the solemn sea

To the sands upon the shore

Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree

Or the stricken eagle soar!

And all my days are trances

And all my nightly dreams

Are where thy grey eye glances

And where thy footstep gleams

In what ethereal dances

By what eternal streams

Ah, dream too bright to last!

Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise

But to be overcast!

A voice from out the Future cries

"On! on!"—but o'er the Past

Dim gulf! my spirit hovering lies

Mute, motionless, aghast!

Are where thy grey eye glances

And where thy footstep gleams

In what ethereal dances

By what eternal streams