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By the grey woods,-by the swamp Where the toad and the newt encamp,By the dismal tarns and pools

Where dwell the Ghouls,— By each spot the most unholyIn each nook most melancholy,— There the traveller meets aghast Sheeted Memories of the PastShrouded forms that start and sigh As they pass the wanderer byWhite-robed forms of friends long given, In agony, to the Earth-and Heaven.

For the heart whose woes are legion
'Tis a peaceful, soothing region—
For the spirit that walks in shadow
'Tis-oh, 'tis an Eldorado!
But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not dare not openly view it;
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.

By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have wandered home but newly
From this ultimate dim Thule.

TO ZANTE.

FAIR isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take !
How many memories of what radiant hours

At sight of thee and thine at once awake!
How many scenes of what departed bliss!
How many thoughts of what entombéd hopes!
How many visions of a maiden that is

No more—no more upon thy verdant slopes ! No more! alas, that magical sad sound

Transforming all! Thy charms shall please no

more

Thy memory no more! Accursed ground

Henceforth I hold thy flower-enamelled shore, O hyacinthine isle ! O purple Zante!

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HYMN.

AT morn-at noon— -at twilight dim—
Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and woe—in good and ill—
Mother of God, be with me still!
When the Hours flew brightly by,
And not a cloud obscured the sky,
My soul, lest it should truant be,
Thy grace did guide to thine and thee;
Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast

Darkly my Present and my Past,
Let my Future radiant shine
With sweet hopes of thee and thine!

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POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.

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