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THE FAREWELL.

! companion of my solitude! Light of my loneliness, my heart's desire; Spirit, that wander'd o'er the soft harp's strings, Farewell! awhile I wake me from thy dream; Fondly farewell, adored one! to thee. Rose of my soul! beside the social hearth Was thy first springing up; thy ev'ry shoot Was brighten'd in the smile of those most dear: Affection was thy sunlight and thy dew. And when thy bloom was lonely, when no more The eyes I lov'd watch'd o'er thy growth, thou wert The blest memorial of those far away— Thy blossoms breath'd of happiness and home.