lirik lagu emma topping - honours martyr
the moon is full this winter night;
the stars are clear, though few;
and every window glistens bright
with leaves of frozen dew
the sweet moon through your lattice gleams
and lights your room like day;
and there you pass, in happy dreams
the peaceful hours away!
while i, with effort hardly quelling
the anguish in my breast
wander about the silent dwelling
and cannot think of rest
the old clock in the gloomy hall
ticks on, from hour to hour;
and every time its measured call
seems lingering slow and slower:
and, oh, how slow that keen~eyed star
has tracked the chilly gray!
what, watching yet! how very far
the morning lies away!
without your chamber door i stand;
love, are you slumbering still?
my cold heart, underneath my hand
has almost ceased to thrill
bleak, bleak the east wind sobs and sighs
and drowns the turret bell
whose sad note, undistinguished, dies
unheard, like my farewell!
to~morrow, scorn will blight my name
and hate will trample me
will load me with a coward’s shame—
a traitor’s perjury
false friends will launch their covert sneers;
true friends will wish me dead;
and i shall cause the bitterest tears
that you have ever shed
the dark deeds of my outlawed race
will then like virtues shine;
and men will pardon their disgrace
beside the guilt of mine
for, who forgives the accursed crime
of dastard treachery?
rebellion, in its chosen time
may freedom’s champion be;
revenge may stain a righteous sword
it may be just to slay;
but, traitor, traitor,—from that word
all true br~~sts shrink away!
oh, i would give my heart to death
to keep my honour fair;
yet, i’ll not give my inward faith
my honour’s name to spare!
not even to keep your priceless love
dare i, beloved, deceive;
this treason should the future prove
then, only then, believe!
i know the path i ought to go
i follow fearlessly
inquiring not what deeper woe
stern duty stores for me
so foes pursue, and cold allies
mistrust me, every one:
let me be false in others’ eyes
if faithful in my own
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