Giustina a Spanish Tale of Real Life a Poem in Three Cantos
Giustina a Spanish Tale of Real Life a Poem in Three Cantos
1799 1883 E S L Elizabeth Susan Law
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" Let him but live !" she cried— this sight of woe — Th 1 impassioiAl flood of tears, that burning flow— c 5 34 c\irsTI\\\. [canto This mental agony, hath all reveaTd Her bosom's secret, scarce till now conceoPd; — Heedless of all around — her love confest, She sinks unconscious on her father's breast. VIII. And now again a hasty summons came — Alonzo sinks — but yet he fain would crave Giustina's sire to see. O worthless Fame ! How pow'rless are thy wreaths from Death to save Those who, thro' ...1 life to win a glorious name, Have sacrifie'd each bliss that Fortune gave, And wrung their own, and many a dearer breast, To sink into an early grave — unblest ! IX. Beside Alonzo's couch the old man sate, But half refusal to trust his feeble sight — II. ] GIUSTINA. 35 Was that the lofty brow, with hope elate, That smil'd so proudly on the festive night ? Which, bow'd by sickness — sinking 'neath his fate, Now feebly shrinks beneath that glimm'ring light ? Alas ! the same — but death and mortal strife Now wring from out that heart the breath of life I X.
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