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Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

by the late Thomas Haynes Bayly; Edited by his Widow. With A Memoir of the Author. In Two Volumes
Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839)

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VOL I.
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[VOLUME TWO]
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POEMS.
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FASHIONABLE ECLOGUES.
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LUNATIC LAYS.
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WEEDS OF WITCHERY.
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SEASONABLE DITTIES.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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SONGS AND BALLADS.
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POEMS AND SONGS.
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SONGS OF THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY.
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THE WREATH.
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OH! TALK NO MORE OF SORROW PAST.

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Oh! talk no more of sorrow past,
You taint the present too,
And even I shall dream at last
Of future ills like you.
Where'er my path, I ever took
Fair hope to be my guide,
Whate'er my fate, I ever look
Upon the brightest side.
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The darkest cloud that visits earth
Not oft survives the day;
I'm ever first to sally forth
To meet sunbeams half way.
The only long liv'd grief must be
A grief that's born of sin;
But virtue soon cheers up, for she
Has sunny thoughts within.
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