A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was Time long past.
(Time Long Past)
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His wan eyes
Gaze on the empty scene as vacantly
As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven.
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Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, love's gentle balm?
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Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
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Soft mossy lawns
Beneath these canopies extend their swells,
Fragrant with perfumed herbs, and eyed with blooms
Minute yet beautiful.
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