Life
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
1743 to 1825
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Life! I know not what thou art,
But ______ that thou and I must part;
And when, ______ how, or where we met,
I own to me’s a secret yet.
But this I know, when ______ art fled,
Where’er they lay these limbs, this head,
No clod so valueless shall be,
As ______ that then remains of me.
O whither, whither ______ thou fly,
Where bend unseen thy trackless course,
And in this strange divorce,
Ah tell where I ______ seek this compound I?
To the vast ocean of ______ flame,
From whence thy essence came,
Dost ______ thy flight pursue, when freed
From matter’s base ______ weed?
Or dost thou, hid from sight,
Wait, like some spell-bound knight,
Through blank oblivious years th’ ______ hour,
To break thy trance and reassume thy power?
______ canst thou without thought or feeling be?
O say ______ art thou, when no more thou ’rt thee?
Life! we’ve been long together,
Through pleasant and through ______ 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 ______ time;
Say not Good night, but in some ______ clime
Bid me Good morning.