Love's golden chain and fervent vow
Are broken, and forever now!
And can he bask in fortune's ray,
Who took from out my skies their day
And live to learn, and love to own,
He made a heart forever lone?
O weary lot! oh tired sigh,
Alone to live, alone to die.
Yet not alone—methinks I see
A MotherEditorial Note: This is likely a reference to Eddy’s mother, Abigail Baker. look in love on me,
As in the golden hours flown,
When youth and joy were all my own,
And in my ear this music pour
Thy God is with thee evermore;
To soothe thy grief and check thy sigh
A love divine, so full, and nigh.
Then not alone, I'll bear the cross,
Through pain and wrong, and know no loss
Of faith and kindliest charity,
The law of Christ fulfilledGal 6:2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. in me
And make my prayer a loving deed,
My life a great and noble creed,
With God to know just what am I
In patient peace I'll live and die.
Lynn Oct 6th 1874
In my chamber, (Solus)Editorial Note: Latin: alone; by oneself
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