 | The Uncollected Poems of Henry Timrod |  |
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IN BOWERS OF EASE
In bowers of ease, Unseen, Resistless PowerThompson [sic] creates a fancied realm for thee
Where pleasure cheaply bought beguil'd the hour
And lazy wight withouten boisterous glee
Might easy live, ne die of ennui
But in our Carolinian atmosphere
We feel thy force in sad reality,
And all thy ills without thy pleasures rare
Weigh us poor mortals down, cooped in the school room here.
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