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Now, worn with pain, oppressed with grief,
To wretchedness a prey,
The night returns, and day succeeds,
Without a cheering ray.
To wretchedness a prey,
The night returns, and day succeeds,
Without a cheering ray.
The room, with darkened windows sad,
A dungeon's semblance bears,—
And all about the silent bed
The face of misery wears:
A dungeon's semblance bears,—
And all about the silent bed
The face of misery wears:
Shut out from Nature's beauteous charms,
And breath of balmy air,
Ah! what can chase the hopeless gloom,
But Heaven,—but humble prayer!
And breath of balmy air,
Ah! what can chase the hopeless gloom,
But Heaven,—but humble prayer!
VERSES FOR CHILDREN.
For Maria Rogers.
Now young life cheers my raptured eye,
May I the transient time improve,
And seek beyond the glowing sky
A mansion of eternal love.
May I the transient time improve,
And seek beyond the glowing sky
A mansion of eternal love.
