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MOTTO TO “A POET'S PORTFOLIO.”
(FRAGMENT OF A PAGE OF OBLIVION.)
Fall'n feathers of a moulting wing,Which ne'er again may soar;
Notes sung in Autumn woods, where Spring
Shall hear their sounds no more:
Her voice and plume—the bird renews;
Man fails but once;—'tis in the tomb
His strength he mews.
1835.
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