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the voice of feasting is heard amid those halls, The grass grows o’er the hearthstone, the fern o’ertops the walls; And yet those scenes are present, as they were of our age— Such is the mighty mastery of one enchanted page.

The name of awakens a world within the heart; The scenes are not more real wherein ourselves have part. Beneath the tree in sunshine—beside the hearth in snow, What hours of deep enjoyment to him and his we owe!