Never wedding ever wooing Still a lovelorn heart pursuing Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing Wed or cease to woo.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before.
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
Truth ever lovely - since the world began The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.
What millions died - that Caesar might be great!
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.