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Evergreen Thorn. — £ Solace in Sorrow. 
When sorrow has touched us, the mind seeks for consolation in 
the glorious revelations of Nature, and combining the objects which 
surround us, or dwelling upon each one that separately presents 
itself, reflects, speculates, and deduces, until, rising to the Great 
Source of all, it finds repose in the convictions of a better world. 
The setting sun with golden rays, s 
Has tinged the western sky; 
And floating clouds around him blaze, 
In gorgeous pageantry; 
-While loveliness not wont to gleam, 
Beneath his warm meridian beam, 
But such as in a Claude it meets, 
The muses’ eye now sweetly greets. 
Yet in the vale dark shadows rest, 
And throng the mountain high; 
While on the water’s tranquil breast, 
Appears the pictured sky; 
