Far, Far Away Is Mirth Withdrawn

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Far, far away is mirth withdrawn
  'Tis three long hours before the morn
  And I watch lonely, drearily
  So come thou shade commune with me

  Deserted one! thy corpse lies cold
  And mingled with a foreign mould
  Year after year the grass grows green
  Above the dust where thou hast been.

  I will not name thy blighted name
  Tarnished by unforgotton shame
  Though not because my bosom torn
  Joins the mad world in all its scorn

  Thy phantom face is dark with woe
  Tears have left ghastly traces there,
  Those ceaseless tears! I wish their flow
  Could quench thy wild despair.

  They deluge my heart like the rain
  On cursed Gomorrah's howling plain
  Yet when I hear thy foes deride
  I must cling closely to thy side

  Our mutual foes, they will not rest
  From trampling on thy buried breast
  Glutting there hatred with the doom
  They picture thine, beyond the tomb

  But God is not like human kind
  Man cannot read the Almighty mind
  Vengeance will never tortue they
  Nor hunt thy soul eternally

  Then do not in this night of grief
  This time of over whelming fear
  O do not think that God can leave
  Forget, forsake, refuse to hear!

  What have I dreamt? He lies asleep
  With whom my heart would vainly weep
  He rests - and I endure the woe
  That left his spirit long ago

© Emily Jane Brontë