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DESPONDENCY.
-"What deep wound ever closed without a scar?"
Sailless andi oarless floats life's shattered barque,
To its fthr haven, and though long the way,
Across a sullen sea of watcrs dark.
The wave must waft it at sorame future day
Unto its destined port. And I will lay
3Iy weary limbs upon that silent shore,
And rest -as [ hope ever, the vilest mnay.
I only ask to sleep for evermore,
My brighltest dreams worlds could hot tempt me to
dream o'er.
Before me all is shadow, gloom, and death,
Behind, the wild sweet shores I have resign?d.
Where childhood's innocence wore many a wreath
Of joy my hapless manhood hath mntwined,
And scattered ruthlessly upon the wind ;
While loved and unfor?gaotten voicns seem
To call me back-how suinly they remind!
'Tis all too late, I canot stem the stream,
Soon may I pass away like my youth's vanished
dream.
ALPINE
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