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TO F----.

BELOVED ! amid the earnest woes

    That crowd around my earthly path -- (Drear path, alas! where grows
Not even one lonely rose) --

    My soul at least a solace hath In dreams of thee, and therein knows
An Eden of bland repose.

And thus thy memory is to me

    Like some enchanted far-off isle In some tumultuos sea --
Some ocean throbbing far and free

    With storms -- but where meanwhile Serenest skies continually

    Just o're that one bright island smile.



1845.

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