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TO A YOUNG SOUTH AMERICAN SPANIARD.
Stranger, from a land of sunshine!
What, returning, wilt thou tell
Of the sunless land thou leavest,
With, perhaps, a last farewell?
What, returning, wilt thou tell
Of the sunless land thou leavest,
With, perhaps, a last farewell?
Wilt thou, of thy young experience,
When the story shall be told,
Say that, like our dull cold climate,
Hearts and minds are dull and cold?
When the story shall be told,
Say that, like our dull cold climate,
Hearts and minds are dull and cold?
No; a less ungentle record
Of the past thou'lt bear away;
“Good and evil have I met with,
Strength and weakness,” thou wilt say.
Of the past thou'lt bear away;
“Good and evil have I met with,
Strength and weakness,” thou wilt say.
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Truth and error—coldness, kindness—
All the good I bear in mind;
All remembrance of the evil
Leave, with England's fogs, behind.
All the good I bear in mind;
All remembrance of the evil
Leave, with England's fogs, behind.
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