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LIFE.
I saw a light upon the landscape playing,Sunning the broken turret, tree and mount;
Anon, the waters of the distant fount
In rainbow hues of loveliness arraying:
I marked how dark and sudden fell the gloom,
How deathlike, as the wandering beam pass'd on,
To make some happier spot its transient throne;
Again to leave it rayless as the tomb!—
Emblem of life, methought, is this brief light;
We feel one moment of a warm glad ray,
One blessed glow of youth, then far away
It speeds, and we are left to death and night!—
But there's a world to light and love assign'd,
A fadeless day for the undying mind!
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