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THE FORGOTTEN ONE.
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I feel this earth could never be
The native home of one like thee.

Farewell! the early dews that fall
    Upon thy grass-grown bed
Are like the thoughts that now recall
    Thine image from the dead.
A blessing hallows thy dark cell—
I will not stay to weep. Farewell!