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4 Literary Gazette, 12th January, 1822, Page 28

TEN YEARS AGO. "Ten years ago," the world was then A pleasant and a lovely dream; Life was a river banked by flowers, With sunshine glancing o'er the stream; The path was new, and there was thrown A sweet veil over pleasure's ray; But ignorance is happiness, When young Hope is to show the way; And fair the scenes that hope would show When youth was bright "ten years ago."

Ten years are past,—life is no more The fairy land that once I knew— Pleasures have proved but falling stars, And many a sweetest spell untrue: But may I look on these dear ones, Feel their soft smile, their rosy kiss; Or may I turn, Beloved, to thee, My own home-star of truth and bliss! While love's sweet lights thus round me glow, Can I regret "ten years ago?" L. E. L.