TO ELLEN
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nd Ellen, when the graybeard yearsHave brought us to life's evening hour,And all the crowded Past appearsA tiny scene of sun and shower, Then, if I read the page arightWhere Hope, the soothsayer, reads our lot,Thyself shalt own the page was bright,Well that we loved, woe had we not, When Mirth is dumb and Flattery's fled,And mute thy music's dearest tone,When all but Love itself is deadAnd all but deathless Reason gone.
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