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POEMS.
   A breathing all divine
   At some old master's shrine,
To linger lovingly within my breast.

   Sing me to realms away,
   Where sunlight crowns the day,
And prints a kiss upon the mountain's height!
   Waft me where Alpine snows
   Glitter 'mid roseate glows,
To leave a radiance ever pure and bright!

   Take me where valleys green
   Bask in a silver sheen,
And morning wakes in bud and blossom gay,
   Where knots of happy flowers
   Perfume the fleeting hours,
To sleep with folded heads at close of day.

   Then on where billows roar,
   And dash along the shore,
In foaming curdles and in thund'rous might,
   Where ocean weeps and raves,
   In rough and rolling waves,
That fill one with a vague and fierce delight.

   O music, thine the power
   To quell a restless hour,
Oh! what upon this earth so wond'rous sweet
   Greatest of things that be,
   To last eternally,
I bow me down before thy charméd feet.