Oh! long enough my life has been, <br /> Since I thy love have known; <br />I would not change the pleasing scene, <br /> And find its beauties flown. <br /> <br />Then let me die, while yet no care <br /> Has reached my trusting breast; <br />While sorrow is a stranger there, <br /> And all is joy and rest. <br /> <br />Let me not feel what varied pain <br /> Life's theatre can show— <br />That all our present hours are vain, <br /> And all our future woe!<br /><br />Louisa Stuart Costello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-oh-long-enough-my-life-has-been/
