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TO ———, IN ABSENCE.
When first we met, beloved, rememberest thou
How all my nature was athirst and faint?
My soul's high powers lay wasting still and slow,
While my sad heart sighed forth its ceaseless plaint
When first we met, beloved, rememberest thou
How all my nature was athirst and faint?
My soul's high powers lay wasting still and slow,
While my sad heart sighed forth its ceaseless plaint
For frowning pride life's summer waves did lock
Away from light,—their restless murmuring hushed
But thou didst smite the cold, defying rock,
And full and fast the living waters gushed!
Away from light,—their restless murmuring hushed
But thou didst smite the cold, defying rock,
And full and fast the living waters gushed!
O, what a summer glory life put on!
What morning freshness those swift waters gave,
That leaped from darkness forth into the sun,
And mirrored heaven in every smallest wave!
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What morning freshness those swift waters gave,
That leaped from darkness forth into the sun,
And mirrored heaven in every smallest wave!
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