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Pleasures of youth and love ! bright dreams 

 Of life s bright hours ! though vain, yet gleams, 



Refulgent, through long years of care, 

 Your sunny memory ; 

 Nor, would I from my heart now dry 



Those founts long since found gushing 

 there. 



There, all unchecked, did Fancy stray, 

 Flinging her hues, in varied play, 



O er changing wish and thought ; 

 And Conscience smiled, and Memory young 

 No tears had known, or thorns among 



Life s joyous flowers had brought. 



Nor \veeds of melancholy care, 

 Or sad regret, were growing where 



Those joyous flowers were blooming ; 

 Nor thoughts of evil augury, 

 As clouds, obscured Hope s azure sky, 



The mind as now entombing. 



Danced through the heart the warbled notes 

 Of Pleasure s song, from Siren throats, 

 As down the silvery tide, 



