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SONNET.
[Dreams of my happy childhood! smiling train]
Dreams of my happy childhood! smiling trainOf young anticipations! how I love
From the world's crowded commerce to remove,
And muse o'er all your sunny hopes again.
To rend away the veil which Time has drawn
Between the past and present, and to roam,
In fancy, o'er the cherish'd scenes of home
As free and buoyant as the bounding fawn.
In those dear moments, young Hope gilds my lot,
Youth's dewy freshness cheers my heart once more,
And the glad spirit of the days of yore
Throbs in each vein, till every ill's forgot;
The warm true heart, the joy that knows no chain,
And all youth's guileless thoughts are mine again.
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