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TO THE LARES.
Dear Household Deities, worshipp'd best, we deem,With gentle sacrifice of Love alone!
Guardians of Home, who make the hearthstone seem
Altar and shrine, O make our hearth your own:
Whether the North-wind walls the world away
With snowy bastions from his frozen lands,
Or Zephyr through our window, day by day,
Climbs like a child with roses in his hands.
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