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STANZAS, ADDITIONAL TO MRS. HEMANS'S “BIRD'S RELEASE.”

February, 1827.
And thou art happier now
In the free, wide fields of the boundless air,
With thy wing on the wind, and thy thought without care,
And thy home on the forest bough.
Even so with the lost and dear;
She is soaring in regions of light above;
She's at home with the blessed in their bowers of love;
And who would recall her here?