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The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Edited by Thomas Aird: With A Memoir of the Author
Moir, D. M. (1798-1851)
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VOL. II.
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OCCASIONAL POEMS.
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SONNETS.
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POEMS IN REFERENCE TO CHILDHOOD.
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ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY.
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SONGS.
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BALLADS.
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TALES.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

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IX.

Soul-sicken'd, satiate, and dissatisfied,
An alter'd being homewards I return'd,
My thoughts revolting at the thirst for blood,
So brutalising, so destructive of
The finer sensibilities, which man
In boyhood owns, and which the world destroys.
Nature had preach'd a sermon to my heart:
And from that moment, on that snowy morn—
(Seeing that earth enough of suffering has
And death)—all cruelty my soul abhorr'd,
Yea, loathed the purpose and the power to kill.
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