Lines.—I cannot sleep

I cannot sleep—my nights glide on

    In one unbroken thought of thee;

And when the gloomy shades are gone,

    I start the dawning light to see.

And as I watch the rising morn

    Gain slowly o'er the yielding sky,

And mark another day new born,

    That glows so brightly—yet must die—

I think how all the hopes we cherish

    As transient, though as bright, will be;

And frailest of the hopes that perish

    Were mine, that told of love and thee!