Poetry.
A TROUBADOUR'S SONG. [From Sismondi' s Literat ure Europe.]
There sate upon the linden tree A bird, and sang its strain ; So sweet it sang, that as I heard My heart went back again. It went to one remember'd spot, It saw the rose-trees grow, And thought again the thoughts of love There cherish'd long ago. A thousand years to me it seems Since by my fair I sate ; Yet thus to be a stranger long, Is not my choice, but fate : Since then I have not seen the flowers, Nor heard the bird's sweet song : My joys have all too briefly past, My griefs been all too long.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 304, 28 June 1848, Page 2
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110Poetry. A TROUBADOUR'S SONG. [From Sismondi's Literature Europe.] New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 304, 28 June 1848, Page 2
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