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STANZAS.
I like—it is my choice to live unseen—
Unsought—by all whom busy eyes admire,
To watch the brightening germ, the deepening green,
And from the glare of vertic wealth retire.
Unsought—by all whom busy eyes admire,
To watch the brightening germ, the deepening green,
And from the glare of vertic wealth retire.
I like the gracious spring—the summer gay—
The autumn, in his every bounty kind,
The social winter's unpretending day,
The kindly converse, and the modest mind.
The autumn, in his every bounty kind,
The social winter's unpretending day,
The kindly converse, and the modest mind.
What is to me the city's revel throng,
I love the sighing of the solemn grove,
The soft half warble of the twilight song,
The fragrant eve's reflective calm, I love.
I love the sighing of the solemn grove,
The soft half warble of the twilight song,
The fragrant eve's reflective calm, I love.
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If friends have passed, and sorrows found their place,
And the hurt mind laments its lone career,
If lost of life the sunshine and the grace,
Yet may one tender gleam of hope appear.
And the hurt mind laments its lone career,
If lost of life the sunshine and the grace,
Yet may one tender gleam of hope appear.
Where the crushed thought can find a voice, and where
Some healthful pleasure on the sick heart rise
Some living loveliness—some buried care,
Warm the cold cheek, and light the languid eyes!
Some healthful pleasure on the sick heart rise
Some living loveliness—some buried care,
Warm the cold cheek, and light the languid eyes!
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