Frances Anne Kemble - Lines Written By The Seaside (II) lyrics

If I believed in d**h, how sweet a bed For such a blessed slumber could I find, Beneath the blue and sparkling coverlid Of that smooth sea, stirred by no breath of wind. Oh if I could but die, and be at rest, Thou smiling sea! in thy slow-heaving breast. But all thy thousand waves quench not the spark Immortal, woful, of one human soul; Under thy sapphire vault, cold, still, and dark, Deep down, below where tides and tempests roll, The spirit may not lose its deeper curse, It finds no d**h in the whole universe.