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Her father watched, she turned her eyes Though on all other things with looks in

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Her recollection; on her flashed the Thus lived-thus died she; never more on dream

Of what she was, and is, if ye could call 525 To be so being: in a gushing stream The tears rushed forth from her o'erclouded brain,

Like mountain mists, at length dissolved in rain.

her

Shall sorrow light, or shame. She was not made

Through years or moons the inner weight

to bear,

Which colder hearts endure till they are

laid

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I shrieked, and clasped my hands in Which yet survive, (stamped on these ecstasy!

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I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine-have I not kept the vow?

With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now

I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave; they have in visioned bowers

lifeless things,)

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65 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

Of studious zeal or love's delight Outwatched with me the envious night

They know that never joy illumed my brow

Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free

This world from its dark slavery; 70 That thou-O awful LOVELINESS, Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot

express.

The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past-there is a har mony

In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, 75 Which through the summer is not heard or

seen,

As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Thus let thy power, which like the truth

Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply 80

Its calm-to one who worships thee,
And every form containing thee,
Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did
bind

To fear himself, and love all human kind.

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