CLARIBEL.

A MELODY.

I.

When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting?
When will the heart be aweary of beating?
And nature die?

Never, oh! never, nothing will die ;
The stream flows,

The wind blows,

The cloud fleets,

The heart beats,
Nothing will die.

Nothing will die;
All things will change
Thro' eternity.

'Tis the world's winter ;
Autumn and summer
Are gone long ago;
Earth is dry to the centre,
But spring, a new comer,
A spring rich and strange,
Shall make the winds blow
Round and round,
Thro' and thro',

Here and there,
Till the air

And the ground

Shall be fill'd with life anew.

The world was never made;
It will change, but it will not fade.
So let the wind range;
For even and morn

Ever will be

Thro' eternity. Nothing was born; Nothing will die;

All things will change.