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ON REVISITING HARROW.
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Here once engaged the stranger's viewYoung Friendship's record simply trac'd;
Few were her words,—but yet, though few,
Resentment's hand the line defac'd.
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Deeply she cut—but not eras'd—The characters were still so plain,
That Friendship once return'd, and gaz'd,—
Till Memory hail'd the words again.
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Repentance plac'd them as before;Forgiveness join'd her gentle name;
So fair the inscription seem'd once more,
That Friendship thought it still the same.
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Thus might the Record now have been;But, ah, in spite of Hope's endeavour,
Or Friendship's tears, Pride rush'd between,
And blotted out the line for ever.
September, 1807.
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