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SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS.
A SPIRIT'S RETURN.
This is to be a mortal,
And seek the things beyond mortality!
Manfred.
Thy voice prevails; dear Friend, my gentle Friend!
This long-shut heart for thee shall be unseal'd,
And though thy soft eye mournfully will bend
Over the troubled stream, yet once reveal'd
Shall its freed waters flow; then rocks must close
For evermore, above their dark repose.
Come while the gorgeous mysteries of the sky
Fused in the crimson sea of sunset lie;
