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Power of Association. 
Lines addressed to a lady in return for some wild flowers, from 
the tomb of Abelard and Heloise, in Pere le Chaise. 
What were thy feelings, lady! what the thought, 
That swayed thy spirit as thou stood’st beside, 
The famed mausoleum, where the world is taugb* 
That bitter lesson to all human pride, — 
That naught, however prized, or great, can save, 
Though Immortality enshrine its grave ? 
Oh ! did thy fancy, as mine would have done, 
Call back to life again those mouldering forms, — 
Giving to Heloise each grace that won, 
Passion surviving all the spirit’s storms, 
