Edgar Allan Poe - The Happiest Day lyrics

The happiest day—the happiest hour My sear'd and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown. Of power! said I? yes! such I ween But they have vanish'd long, alas! The visions of my youth have been— But let them pa**. And, pride, what have I now with thee? Another brow may ev'n inherit The venom thou hast pour'd on me— Be still, my spirit. The happiest day—the happiest hour Mine eyes shall see—have ever seen, The brightest glance of pride and power, I feel—have been: But were that hope of pride and power Now offer'd with the pain Ev'n then I felt—that brightest hour I would not live again: For on its wing was dark alloy, And, as it flutter'd—fell An essence—powerful to destroy A soul that knew it well.