Love Lives Beyond The Tomb by John Clare

Published: Dec. 17, 2007, 8:36 a.m.

b"Clare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nLove Lives Beyond The Tomb\\n by John Clare (1793 \\u2013 1864)\\n\\nLove lives beyond the tomb,\\nAnd earth, which fades like dew!\\nI love the fond,\\nThe faithful, and the true.\\n\\nLove lives in sleep:\\n'Tis happiness of healthy dreams:\\nEve's dews may weep,\\nBut love delightful seems.\\n\\n'Tis seen in flowers,\\nAnd in the morning's pearly dew;\\nIn earth's green hours,\\nAnd in the heaven's eternal blue.\\n\\n'Tis heard in Spring\\nWhen light and sunbeams, warm and kind,\\nOn angel's wing\\nBring love and music to the mind.\\n\\nAnd where's the voice,\\nSo young, so beautiful, and sweet\\nAs Nature's choice,\\nWhere Spring and lovers meet?\\n\\nLove lives beyond the tomb,\\nAnd earth, which fades like dew!\\nI love the fond, \\nThe faithful, and the true."