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Davidson, Lucretia Maria - The Fear Of Madness
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The Fear Of Madness - Poem by Lucretia Maria Davidson
There is a something which I dread,
It is a dark, a fearful thing;
It steals along with withering tread,
Or sweeps on wild destruction's wing.
That thought comes o'er me in the hour
Of grief, of sickness, or of sadness;
'T is not the dread of death —'t is more,
It is the dread of madness.
Oh! may these throbbing pulses pause,
Forgetful of their feverish course;
May this hot brain, which burning, glows
With all a fiery whirlpool's force,
Be cold, and motionless, and still,
A tenant of its lowly bed,
But let not dark delirium steal —