NO JOY I’LL SEE BUT IN THOSE SMILES.

WRITTEN BY

JOSEPH A. NUNES.

COMPOSED BY

JAMES BELLAK.

Published by permission of Mr. E. L. Walker, No. 160 Chestnut Street.

I’ll think of thee, that thought alone

Can never from my mem’ry flee,

In ev’ry breeze I’ll find a tone

That whispers nought but love and

thee

And ev’ry sound that greets my ear,

And ev’ry object that I see,

Will be to me more sweet, more dear,

When mingled with the thought of thee.

Should fortune smile, and hope be bright,

And from the world be nought to fear,

Oh! what can add to that delight

But the one thought that thou art near.

Then pleasure, with its thousand smiles,

Will vainly strive this heart to free:

No joy I’ll see but in those smiles,

No rapture feel away from thee.

And when existence’s span is run

And death impatient waits for me,

My soul, as to its earthly sun,

Will turn a lingering look on thee:

E’en when the last sad scene of life

Shall mingle with the shades of death,

My spirit, in its latest strife,

Will bless thee with its parting breath.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Obvious type-setting and punctuation 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 304, soulfull look, and ==> soulful look, and

page 306, reader, with what exhuberance ==> reader, with what exuberance

page 308, some of her satelites ==> some of her satellites

page 310, eyes were rivited upon ==> eyes were riveted upon

page 318, To batten and gorge on ==> To fatten and gorge on

page 341, of Amherstbergh, Canada west, ==> of Amherstburg, Canada west,

page 341, by incessant harrassing, which ==> by incessant harassing, which

page 346, and whom libertinism ==> and for whom libertinism

[End of Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, May 1850]