Felicia Hemans

“ BY MRS. HEMANS.
"Fair Helen of Kirconnel," as she is called in the Scottish Minstrelsy, throwing herself between her betrothed lover and a rival by whom his life was assailed, received a mortal wound, and died in the arms of the former.
Hold me upon thy faithful heart,
Keep back my flitting breath;
'Tis early, early to depart,
Sweet friend!—yet this is Death!
Look on me still:—let that kind eye
Be the last light I see!
Oh! sad it is in spring to die,
But yet I die for thee! ”