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Soul-soothing plant! that can such blessings give, By thee the mourner bears to live! By thee the hopeless die! Oh! ever "friendly to despair," Might Sorrow's pallid votary dare, Without a crime, that remedy implore, Which bids the spirit from its bondage fly, I'd court thy palliative aid no more;

No more I'd sue that thou shouldst shed, A transient calm around my aching head, But rather would conjure thee to impart Thy sovereign balsam for a broken heart; And by thy dear Lethean power, (Inestimable flower) Burst these terrestrial bonds, and other regions try.