MAID of the placid smile and heav'nly mien, <br />With beaming eye, tho' tearful yet serene; <br />Teach me, like thee, in sorrow's ling'ring hour, <br />To bless devotion's all-consoling pow'r; <br />Teach me, like thee, when storms around me rise, <br />And spreading glooms obscure the azure skies, <br />On one unclouded light to fix my view, <br />For ever brilliant and for ever true; <br />The star of faith! whose mild, celestial ray, <br />With steady lustre shall direct my way: <br />Thy seraph-hand shall raise my drooping head; <br />Angel of peace! thy wings around me spread; <br />With hallow'd spells my fainting spirit cheer, <br />Hush the sad murmur, dry the starting tear. <br /> <br />Thus when the halcyon broods upon the tides, <br />The winds are lull'd, the mountain-wave subsides; <br />Soft rainbow-hues, reflected, tinge the deep, <br />And balmy zephyrs on its bosom sleep— <br />Maid of the placid smile! my troubled soul, <br />Would own thy gentle reign, thy mild control; <br />Though the pale cypress twine thy sainted brow, <br />Eternal palms for thee, in heav'n shall blow.<br /><br />Felicia Dorothea Hemans<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-resignation/
