Classic Poem

Lady , not to me are given
Firmness, constancy, and power,
On the eagle's pinions driven,
Sunward from the earth to tower.

Boding cares and fears oppress me,
Viewless bonds my feelings chain;
Anxious dreams and hopes possess me,
Dreams and hopes perhaps in vain.

Mine is transient joy, that borrows
All the light it would bestow:
But my deep, though silent sorrows,
Be it never thine to know.

When the mist so drear and lonely,
Shall have vanish'd from my brow;
Lady, then, alas! then only,
Mayst thou read my feelings now.

Happiness through life betide thee,
May thy sun unclouded shine;
With a light serene to guide thee,
May that lofty sphere be thine!