To Mary

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WHERE Beauty is smiling
  With Love undenied,
Where Gladness is flowing
  From Pleasure’s hill-side,
Whatever of charming
  I elsewhere may see,
I can turn from it, Mary,
  To think upon thee.

When winds of affliction
  Blow cold on my rest,
And the pang that will sleep not
  Is loud in my breast,
Still however clinging
  These troubles may be,
I can turn from them, Mary,
  To think upon thee.

When Weariness sleepeth
  And Care is at rest,
When Happiness dreameth
  Of all it loves best,
Then as the moon gazes
  Upon the broad sea,
My soul o’er thy dwelling
  Looks down upon thee!

© Charles Harpur