Penny Dreadfuls, 1812 · page 207 of 258
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This is page 189 of running verse poetry. The text consists of four stanzas in rhyming couplets addressing themes of suffering and love's consolation. The speaker, confined to a "couch of pain" and separated from former pleasures, expresses hope that love and affection will provide comfort through illness or decline. The final stanza appeals to Heaven to preserve these comforts, asking that love might ease the speaker's suffering and "smooth life's downward slope" as age approaches. The tone is sentimental and melodramatic, typical of Victorian popular literature.
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189 Though destined to the couch of pain, ‘Though torn from pleasures once too dear, Around that couch shall still remain The love that every pain can cheer. | And o’er that couch, in fondness bent, My languid glance shall grateful meet The eye of love benevolent, The tender smile, the tear most sweet. And still for me affection’s hand Shall o’er that couch her roses shed’ And woo from ease her poppied band, To twine around this throbbing head. O pitying Heaven! these comforts spare, Though age untimely chill gay hope ; May Love still crown the sufferer’s prayer, And gently smooth life’s downward slope ! Connicloookks.comn