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Lo ! anprtls lead me to the happy shores, 



And floating pasans fill the buoyant wind. 

 Farewell ! base earth, farewell ! my soul is frend, 

 Fa,r from its clayey cell it springs, — 



VII. 



Ah! who can say, however fair his view, 

 Through what sad scenes his path may lie ? 

 Ah ! who can give to other's woes his sigh. 



Secure his own will never need it too ! 



Let thoughtless youth its seeming joys pursue. 



Soon will they learn to scan ^vith thoughtful eye. 



The illusive past and dark futurity ; 



Soon will they know— - 



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VIIT, 



And must thou go, and must we part ! 



Yes, Fate decrees, and I submit ! 

 The pang that rends in twain my heart, 



Oh, Fanny, dost thou share in it ? 



Thy sex is fickle, — when away. 



Some happier youth may win thy — • 



IX. 



When higli romance o'er every wood and sti^eam, 

 Dark lustre shed, m.y infant mind to fire ; 



Spell-struck, and filed with many a wondering dream. 

 First in the groves I woke the pensive lyre. 



All there was mystery then, the gust that woke 

 The midnight echo was a spirit's dirge ; 



