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It shed below a holier light

Than ever sun or star hath given,

It rent the films that veiled my sight,

For ever linked my thoughts with heaven;

And flung around my soul a spell

That ne'er can die with earth's farewell.

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I'LL STILL LOVE THEE.

By day, by night, in weal or woe,
Where'er on earth my lot may be;
In crimson climes or polar snow,
I'll still love thee.

If it be mine to dwell afar

In distant lands beyond the sea,

Where savages untutored are,

I'll still love thee.

Or in my home near thee to dwell,

A simple child of minstrelsy,

And win the world with song's sweet spell,

I'll still love thee.

When floating down the dizzy dance
'Mid song and sounds of revelry,
I'll turn from every rapturous glance,
And still love thee.

When sudden seas of sorrow roll
Around me wild, tempestuously,
And breakers break upon my soul,

I'll still love thee.

And when upon the couch of death,

And time is closing unto me,

My latest prayer-my latest breath

I'll breathe for thee.

IMPROMPTU,

ON BEING ASKED "WHY THIS GLOOM?"

ASK not, alas! whence is this gloom,

This dark cloud on my brow,

Why fadeth thus my cheek's fresh bloom,

Or why so pensive now.

Ask not, dear friend, why steal the tears

In silence from mine eye,

Why anguish in my look appears,

Or why so oft I sigh ;

For there are woes too deep for speech,
Feelings too finely strung

For human sympathy to reach,

Sorrows that have no tongue.

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THE SPOT I LOVE BEST.

THERE is one only spot on earth,

That holds my heart beyond all other

It is the place that gave me birth

Where lonely dwells my gentle mother:

And where the pensive willow weeps,
The streamlet calmly ever flows
Beside the sod where sweetly sleeps

My father in his last repose.

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