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TO WILLIAM
Pleasures, as with light wings they go,
Let pining age reprove,
William, on you may Heaven bestow
Fond cares and faithful love.
Let pining age reprove,
William, on you may Heaven bestow
Fond cares and faithful love.
Few friends in foreign lands we find,
Not many more at home,
Some are ungrateful, some unkind,
Time, absence, Death take some.
Not many more at home,
Some are ungrateful, some unkind,
Time, absence, Death take some.
Malice o'erpowers us madly charmed
With dreams of deathless song,
'Tis our prime blessing to have warmed
The heart that holds us long.
With dreams of deathless song,
'Tis our prime blessing to have warmed
The heart that holds us long.
Florence, 16th Oct., 1829.
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