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Younb.

Go, forget me—why should sorrow

O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me—and to-morrow - Brightly smile and sweetly sing. Sinile—though I shall not be near thee; Sing—though I shall never hear thee:

May thy soul with pleasure shine,

Lasting as the gloom of mine. Go, forget me, &c.

Like the sun, thy presence glowing,

Clothes the meanest things in light; And when thou, like him, art going,

Loveliest objects fade in night. All things look'd so bright about thee, That they nothing seem without thee, By that pure and lucid mind, Earthly things were too refined. Like the sun, &c.

/ Go, thou vision wildly gleaming,

Softly on my soul that fell; Go, for me.no longer beaming—

Hope and beauty! fare ye well ! Go, and all that once delighted Take, and leave me all benighted; Glory's burning—generous swell, Fancy and the poet's shell. Go, thou vision, &c.

Charles Wolfe.