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Such as, on cloudless days in eastern climes,
With the still, hazy air seems interfused,
Enrobing with a dreamy loveliness
All visible things, transfigured in its glow.
'Tis so that tottering age, with fading eye,
Still sees thee, childhood, glorious as of old,
And of all earth's delights thine last forgets.

  But childhood's glory fades; its visions change;
For sweet simplicity and guileless trust,
Come youth's unrest, and thoughts that wider sweep,
With keener search and wishes reaching far;
And yearnings vague that crave they know not what;
Imaginations of all shapes and hues
That make earth seem a dreamland, and bright hopes
That in all gorgeous tints life's future limn.
Deep in the breast the sense of powers divine
Yet slumbering, stirs the eager soul with thirst
For wisdom's living streams, impels to curb
The impulses by pleasure's luring call
Awakened oft, and give to high pursuit