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DEDICATION<br />

AOAL~, in <strong>de</strong>epening beauty, ye float near,<br />

Forms, dimly imaged in the days gone by­<br />

Is that old fancy to the heart still <strong>de</strong>ar ?<br />

To that old spell will ye again reply?<br />

Ye throng before my view, divinely clear,<br />

Like sunbeams conquering a cloudy sky!<br />

Then have me at your will! My bosom burns,<br />

Magic is breatlLng-youth and joy returns I<br />

Pictures you bring with you of happy years,<br />

Loved sha<strong>de</strong>s of other days are rising fast.<br />

First-Iovo with early Friendship reappears<br />

Like half remembered legends of the past.<br />

Wounds bleed anew;-the Plaint pursues with tears<br />

The wan<strong>de</strong>rer through life's labyrinthine waste;<br />

And names the Good, already past away,<br />

Cheated, alas! of half life's little day.<br />

nut, ah! they eannot hear my closing !'ong,<br />

Those hearts, for whom its earlier notes were tried;<br />

Departed is, alas! the friC'ndly throng.<br />

And dumb tho echoes all, that first replied.<br />

If some still live this stranger world among.<br />

Fortune hath scattered them at distance wi<strong>de</strong>;<br />

To men unknOITI1 my griefs I now impart,<br />

\\,h05e very praises leaye me sick at heart.<br />

<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong>

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