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Illustration Of A Picture	A
	-
They bid me strike the idle strings	B
As if my summer days	C
Had shaken sunbeams from their wings	B
To warm my autumn lays	C
They bring to me their painted urn	D
As if it were not time	E
To lift my gauntlet and to spurn	D
The lists of boyish rhyme	E
And were it not that I have still	F
Some weakness in my heart	G
That clings around my stronger will	F
And pleads for gentler art	G
Perchance I had not turned away	H
The thoughts grown tame with toil	I
To cheat this lone and pallid ray	H
That wastes the midnight oil	I
	-
Alas with every year I feel	J
Some roses leave my brow	K
Too young for wisdom's tardy seal	J
Too old for garlands now	K
Yet while the dewy breath of spring	L
Steals o'er the tingling air	M
And spreads and fans each emerald wing	L
The forest soon shall wear	M
How bright the opening year would seem	N
Had I one look like thine	O
To meet me when the morning beam	N
Unseals these lids of mine	O
Too long I bear this lonely lot	P
That bids my heart run wild	Q
To press the lips that love me not	P
To clasp the stranger's child	Q
	-
How oft beyond the dashing seas	R
Amidst those royal bowers	S
Where danced the lilacs in the breeze	R
And swung the chestnut flowers	S
I wandered like a wearied slave	T
Whose morning task is done	U
To watch the little hands that gave	T
Their whiteness to the sun	U
To revel in the bright young eyes	V
Whose lustre sparkled through	W
The sable fringe of Southern skies	V
Or gleamed in Saxon blue	W
How oft I heard another's name	X
Called in some truant's tone	Y
Sweet accents which I longed to claim	X
To learn and lisp my own	Y
	-
Too soon the gentle hands that pressed	Z
The ringlets of the child	Q
Are folded on the faithful breast	Z
Where first he breathed and smiled	Q
Too oft the clinging arms untwine	Y
The melting lips forget	A2
And darkness veils the bridal shrine	Y
Where wreaths and torches met	A2
If Heaven but leaves a single thread	B2
Of Hope's dissolving chain	Y
Even when her parting plumes are spread	B2
It bids them fold again	Y
The cradle rocks beside the tomb	C2
The cheek now changed and chill	F
Smiles on us in the morning bloom	C2
Of one that loves us still	F
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Sweet image I have done thee wrong	D2
To claim this destined lay	H
The leaf that asked an idle song	D2
Must bear my tears away	H
Yet in thy memory shouldst thou keep	E2
This else forgotten strain	Y
Till years have taught thine eyes to weep	E2
And flattery's voice is vain	Y
Oh then thou fledgling of the nest	Z
Like the long wandering dove	F2
Thy weary heart may faint for rest	Z
As mine on changeless love	F2
And while these sculptured lines retrace	G2
The hours now dancing by	H2
This vision of thy girlish grace	G2
May cost thee too a sigh	H2

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