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Life Lyrics by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

2019

Life! I know not what thou art
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met
I own to me’s a secret yet
But this I know, when thou art fled
Where’er they lay these limbs, this head
No clod so valueless shall be
As all that then remains of me
O whither, whither dost thou fly
Where bend unseen thy trackless course
And in this strange divorce
Ah tell where I must seek this compound I?
To the vast ocean of empyreal flame
From whence thy essence came
Dost thou thy flight pursue, when freed
From matter’s base encumbering weed?
Or dost thou, hid from sight
Wait, like some spell-bound knight
Through blank oblivious years th’ appointed hour
To break thy trance and reassume thy power?
Yet canst thou without thought or feeling be?
O say what art thou, when no more thou ’rt thee?
Life! we’ve been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
’Tis hard to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps ’t will cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning
Choose thine own time;
Say not Good night, but in some brighter clime
Bid me Good morning
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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