Park Benjamin - Tributary Sonnet lyrics

Heart, that with warm and generous feeling beat-- How strange it seems to one who loved thee well, That over thee has pealed the solemn knell, And not one spark of all that genial heat Remains each high-born sympathy to greet, And glow with fond affection, when some word Uttered in tone harmonious, low, and sweet, Thy fervent depths to kind emotions stirred! Alas--that thou, when life was doubly dear, When once more reunited to thine own, After such weary years of absence flown, Should'st be translated--though to that bright sphere On which, in child-like earnestness and faith, Thy looks were turned beyond the door of d**h.