ghizela rowe - secrets - letitia elizabeth landon lyrics

life has dark secrets; and the hearts are few
that treasure not some sorrow from the world—
a sorrow silent, gloomy, and unknown
yet colouring the future from the past
we see the eye subdued, the practised smile
the word well weighed before it pass the lip
and know not of the misery within:
yet there it works incessantly, and fears
the time to come; for time is tеrrible
avenging, and betraying