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 70 POEMS.

LV.

CHILDISH GRIEFS.

SOFTENED by Time's consummate plush, ^ How sleek the woe appears That threatened childhood's citadel And undermined the years !

Bisected now by bleaker griefs,

We envy the despair That devastated childhood's realm,

So easy to repair.