| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs.
XV. Rest is not Here | | By Carolina, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
| | | WHAT’S this vain world to me?— | |
| Rest is not here; | |
| False are the smiles I see, | |
| The mirth I hear. | |
| Where is youth’s joyful glee? | 5 |
| Where all once dear to me? | |
| Gone as the shadows flee— | |
| Rest is not here. | |
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| Why did the morning shine | |
| Blythely and fair? | 10 |
| Why did those tints so fine | |
| Vanish in air? | |
| Does not the vision say, | |
| Faint lingering heart, away, | |
| Why in this desert stay? | 15 |
| Dark land of care! | |
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| Where souls angelic soar, | |
| Thither repair; | |
| Let this vain world no more | |
| Lull and ensnare. | 20 |
| That Heaven I love so well | |
| Still in my heart shall dwell; | |
| All things around me tell, | |
| Rest is found there. | | | | |
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