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Felicia Dorothea Hemans - The Laplander To His Rein-Deer
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HOW long, oh, my faithful companion and guide!
	Thou hast wafted o`er deserts my car!
	How oft, oh, my rein-deer! thy speed has been tried,
	O`er mountains unknown and afar!

	But thy youth is departed, thy fire is no more,
	And thy limbs all their vigor have lost;
	For age steals upon thee, relentless and hoar,
	And colder than winter his frost!

	When friendship, or pleasure, invited away,
	Thou hast borne me o`er valleys and plains;
	Untir`d with the dangers, the toils of the day,
	While the road was beguil`d by my strains!

	When love gave the word, o`er the landscape of snow,
	We flew like the wings of the wind!
	In this ice-cover`d region, his sun-beam may glow, 
	To melt and to soften the mind!

	But thy youth is departed, thy spirit and grace,
	And thy limbs all their vigor have lost;
	For age steals upon thee with lingering pace,
	And colder than winter his frost.

	How oft has the summer, in mantle of green,
	Array`d the wild Tenglio`s side;
	Since thou, oh, my rein-deer! my servant hast been,
	My faithful companion and guide!

	When we journey`d together, and both in our prime,
	How fleet were thy steps o`er the waste;
	But fleeter than thee, oh, my rein-deer! is time, 
	More swift, more unsparing in haste!

	For thy youth is departed, thy spirit is fled,
	And thy limbs all their vigor have lost;
	Now age steals upon thee, unwelcome and dread,
	And colder than winter his frost!
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