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And gently calls the wanderer back, 
From brooding memory’s darkened track, 
And leads, with mild, unerring ray, 
To future scenes of endless day. 
Emblem of bfe! ’t is thus in youth, 
Fab visions charm the mind, 
While manhood feels the hacknied truth, 
* They vary as the wind ; ’ — 
Like sunset splendours when they fade, 
Adi things seem sinking into shade, 
Till Wisdom’s lights around us play, 
And chase desponding thoughts away. 
She leads the mind to sterner things, 
To Duty’s starlit way, 
And o’er realities she flings 
Truth’s full, unchanging ray; — 
