1.
TIS pleasing to think on the days that are past,
And sweetly to muse on the pleasures of youth,
Before the bright sunshine of joy was o’ercast,
Or Fancy’s fair visions destroyed by Truth.
2.
When gay and enchanting the World smiled around,
Presenting a landscape unshaded by pain,
Before we had trodden it’s dangerous ground,
Or had listen’d erewhile to its soft syren strain.
3.
Thus fondly I wander to England’s blest shore,
To the scenes which I loved and the friends who were dear,
Till Memory’s sweet powers can charm me no more,
And present delights bid the past disappear.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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