Stanzas For Music

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I trust the happy hour will come, 
  That shall to peace thy breast restore;
  And that we two, beloved friend,
  Shall one day meet to part no more.

  It grieves me most, that parting thus, 
  All my soul feels I dare not speak;
  And when I turn me from thy sight,
  The tears in silence wet my cheek.

  Yet I look forward to the time, 
  That shall each wound of sorrow heal;
  When I may press thee to my heart,
  And tell thee all that now I feel.

© William Lisle Bowles