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• When vain desire at last and vain regret
• Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain,
• What shall assuage the unforgotten pain
• And teach the unforgetful to forget?
• Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet,—
• Or may the Soul at once in a green plain
• Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain
• And cull the dew-drenched flowering amulet?

• Ah! when the wan soul in that golden air
• 10 Between the scriptured petals softly blown
• Peers breathless for the gift of grace unknown,—
• Let no such joys as other souls count fair
• But only the one Hope's one name be there,—
• Not less nor more, but even that word alone.

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