ow burns on my cheek may impart
The deep thoughts that dwell in that silence of heart.

"Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace
Were those hours--can their joy or their bitterness cease?
We repent--we abjure--we will break from our chain--
We will part,--we will fly to--unite it again!

"Oh! thine be the gladness, and mine be the guilt!
Forgive me, adored one!--forsake, if thou wilt;--
But the heart which is thine shall expire undebased,
And _man_ shall not break it--whatever _thou_ mayst.

"And stern to the haughty, but humble to thee,
This soul, in its bitterest blackness, shall be;
And our days seem as swift, and our moments more sweet,
With thee by my side, than with worlds at our feet.

"One sigh of thy sorrow, one look of thy love,
Shall turn me or fix, shall reward or reprove;
And the heartless may wonder at all I resign--
Thy lip shall reply, not to them, but to _mine_."

[Footnote 32: I had begged of him to write something for me to set to
music.]

* * * * *

TO MR. MOORE.

"Will you and Rogers come to my box at Covent, then? I shall be
there, and none else--or I won't be there, if you _twain_ would
like to go without me. You will not get so good a place hustling
among the publican _boxers_, with damnable apprentices (six feet
high) on a back row. Will you both oblige me and come,--or one--or
neither--or, what you will?

"P.S. An' you will, I will call for you at half-past six, or any
time of your own dial."

* * * * *

TO MR. MOORE.

"I have gotten a box for Othello to-night, and send the ticket for
your friends the R----fes. I seriously recommend to you to
recommend to them to go for half an hour, if only to see the third
act--they will not easily have another opportunity. We--at least,
I--cannot be there, so there will be no one in their way. Will you
give or send it to them? it will come with a better grace from you
than me.

"I am in no good plight, but will dine at * *'s with you, if I can.
There is music and Covent-g.

"Will you go, at all events, to my box there afterwards, to see a
_debut_ of a young 16[33] in the 'Child of Nature?'"

[Footnote 33: Miss Foote's first appearance, whic