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Page 57 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew.
Page 1 - There is a mood, (I sing not to the vacant and the young) There is a kindly mood of melancholy, That wings the soul, and points her to the skies...
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| Title | The pleasures of melancholy, and other poems |
| Author | Robert Farmer (of Ealing.) |
| Publisher | Saunders and Otley, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 119 pages |
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