SADNESS MAKES THEE SWEETER.

WRITTEN BY

J. M. CHURCH, ESQ.

MUSIC COMPOSED BY

JAMES BELLAK.

Presented by Edward L. Walker, 150 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

I watch thee dearest maiden,

I mark thy beauty rare,

Thou’rt leaning from thy casement,

To breathe the moon-lit

air!

The rays are softly falling

Upon thy mournful face,

And in thy sweet, sad eyes love,

A secret pang I trace!

My dreams are all of heaven.

Or sooth sweet one of thee!

And oft I seek thy casement,

This earthly heaven to see:

Ah! tell me where thy thoughts love,

Are wandering this hour!

Thou art not happy lovely one

Thus lonely in thy bower.

That brow how darkly shadowed,

Bid clouds of grief depart!

Yet sadness makes thee sweeter,

More sad, more sweet, thou art,

Now mine’s a cheerful heart love,

Wilt mingle it with thine?

The cup we’ll quaff together,

And thus our fates entwine.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Punctuation and obvious type-setting errors have been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the eBook.

page 4, his voice faultered on ==> his voice faltered on

page 20, customary slouching gate, ==> customary slouching gait,

page 24, Ellsler’s castinets in the ==> Ellsler’s castanets in the

page 26, ranks. No faultering—no ==> ranks. No faltering—no

page 26, work—no faultering—no ==> work—no faltering—no

page 26, shield of Salahad when ==> shield of Galahad when

page 32, McClean, who, losing all ==> McLean, who, losing all

page 34, of Quebec, M. Cramehe ==> of Quebec, M. Cramahé

page 47, And wavy Appenines and ==> And wavy Apennines and

page 49, simply Lily’s Euphuisms revived ==> simply Lyly’s Euphuisms revived

page 64, On the mantle-piece were ==> On the mantel-piece were

page 69, investigation of inorganized ==> investigation of unorganized

page 71, still plead the angel-voice ==> still pleaded the angel-voice

page 77, Harry advised as villany ==> Harry advised as villainy

page 79, home is — No., Union ==> home is No. — , Union

page 89, (Pelecanus Onocrotatus) ==> (Pelecanus Onocrotalus)

Le Follet, Chapeau de M^me. Baudry ==> Chapeaux de M^me. Baudry

Le Follet, Plume de Chagot ==> Plumes de Chagot

[End of Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, January 1850, George Rex Graham, Editor]