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A THOUGHT OF PARADISE.


Thy golden-fruited grove
Was not for pining love;
Vain sadness would but dim thy crystal skies!
Oh! Thou wert but a part
Of what man's exiled heart
Hath lost—the dower of inborn Paradise!