Why did I laugh tonight?no voice will tell:
No God , no Demon of severe response,
Deigns to reply from Heaven or from hell.
Then to my human heart I turn at once.
Heart! Thou and I are here sad and alone
I say why did I laugh ! O mortal pain!
O Darkness! Darkness! ever must I moan,
To question Heaven and Hell and Heart in vain.
Why did I laugh?I know this Being´s lease,
My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads;
Yet Would I On this very midnight cease,
And the world´s ensigns see in shreds;
Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed,
But Death intenser - Death is LIfe´s High meed.
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