 | Songs and Poems from 1819 to 1879 |  |
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[Fair as the morn's light o'er heaven stealing]
Fair as the morn's light o'er heaven stealing,
Pure as the fountains that leap in its ray,
Sweet as the flowers that, its influence feeling,
Open their blossoms to welcome the day,
Were the young hopes time hath stolen away.
Pure as the fountains that leap in its ray,
Sweet as the flowers that, its influence feeling,
Open their blossoms to welcome the day,
Were the young hopes time hath stolen away.
As when the morn's light is suddenly shrouded,
Dull flows the fountain deprived of its ray,
As droop the flowerets when chilly and clouded,
Slow o'er the mountain arises the day,
So sunk my heart when those hopes fled away.
Dull flows the fountain deprived of its ray,
As droop the flowerets when chilly and clouded,
Slow o'er the mountain arises the day,
So sunk my heart when those hopes fled away.
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