The grave is but the mystic portal, I do believe despair is ending, My soul's bewilder'd chaos gone; I cannot speak, the rapture dawning At thy decrees no longer railing, And humbly cry, my guilt bewailing, THE MOTHER. 1. 'MID the wild cavern'd cliffs which darkly frown. As loth the dangers of the gulph to show: 2. A woman, blind and aged, (her weak frame, 3. Look how he fondly presses to his heart That the poor mother sought, with noiseless pace, Her own dear infant, whom her watchful eye |