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HERE AND THERE.
O glad is youth with the brow of Helen,The mouth where Lalage's kisses cleave;O fair is the lovely world to dwell in,Fair to dwell in, and fair to leave!
Blest, blest the years when a baby's laughterFills with music the flying day,And passionate yearnings go trembling afterThe rosy flame in that fragile clay.
Delicious life! But when death shall captureSoul and sense from its yielding years,Dearer that hour whose bursting raptureGives us the freedom of the spheres!