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Are music parted, and the tones of mirthWild, silvery tones, that rang through days more bright!

Have died in others,-yet to me they come, Singing of boyhood back-the voices of my home!

II.

They call me through this hush of woods, reposing

In the gray stillness of the summer morn,
They wander by when heavy flowers are closing,
And thoughts grow deep, and winds and stars
are born;

E'en as a fount's remember'd gushings burst
On the parch'd traveller in his hour of thirst,
E'en thus they haunt me with sweet sounds, till

worn

Remorse, a Tragedy.

By quenchless longings, to my soul I sayOh! for the dove's swift wings, that I might flee away,

III.

And find mine ark !-yet whither ?—I must bear
A yearning heart within me to the grave.
I am of those o'er whom a breath of air-
Just darkening in its course the lake's bright
wave,

And sighing through the feathery canes(1)— hath power

To call up shadows, in the silent hour, From the dim past, as from a wizard's cave! So must it be!-These skies above me spread, Are they my own soft skies?-Ye rest not here, my dead!

IV.

Ye far amidst the southern flowers lie sleeping,
Your graves all smiling in the sunshine clear,
Save one!—a blue, lone, distant main is sweeping
High o'er one gentle head-ye rest not here!—
'Tis not the olive, with a whisper swaying,
Not thy low ripplings, glassy water, playing
Through my own chesnut groves, which fill
mine ear;

But the faint echoes in my breast that dwell, And for their birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell.(2)

V.

Peace!-I will dash these fond regrets to earth, Ev'n as an eagle shakes the cumbering rain

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