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Moses In Infancy
How! canst thou see the basket, wherein layThe infant Moses, by the river's side;
And her, who stood and watched it on the tide;
Will Time bring back to thee that early day?
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Where lived that mother, tossed with hope and fear,
Yet more than was her infant by the wave?
No: Time will not his dark domain unbar,
Himself he cannot from oblivion save;
Nor canst thou make come nearer what is far;—
But thou hast human sympathies to feel
What eye, nor ear, nor sense can e'er reveal;
Hope too is thine, that past the ocean sails,
And Memory, that over Time himself prevails!
Poem No. 182; c. 9 May 1846
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