When Moonlike Ore The Hazure Seas

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When moonlike ore the hazure seas
 In soft effulgence swells,
When silver jews and balmy breaze
 Bend down the Lily's bells;
When calm and deap, the rosy sleep
 Has lapt your soal in dreems,
R Hangeline! R lady mine!
 Dost thou remember Jeames?

I mark thee in the Marble All,
 Where England's loveliest shine—
I say the fairest of them hall
 Is Lady Hangeline.
My soul, in desolate eclipse,
 With recollection teems—
And then I hask, with weeping lips,
 Dost thou remember Jeames?

Away! I may not tell thee hall
 This soughring heart endures—
There is a lonely sperrit-call
 That Sorrow never cures;
There is a little, little Star,
 That still above me beams;
It is the Star of Hope—but ar!
 Dost thou remember Jeames?

© William Makepeace Thackeray