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EXPERIENCE.
119

So he took his wings and fled;
Then the morn blush'd rosy red;
I dried my tears and arm'd my fears
With ten thousand shields and spears.

Soon my angel came again:
I was arm'd, he came in vain;
For the time of youth was fled,
And grey hairs were on my head.


THE LITTLE GIRL LOST.


IN futurity
I prophetic see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the sentence deep)
 
Shall arise and seek
For her maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
 
In the southern clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.