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 THE BENEFACTRESS.

��WHO asks if I remember thee ? or speak thy treasur'd

name ? Doth the frail rush forget the stream from whence its

greenness came ? Doth the wild, lonely flower, that sprang within some

rocky dell, Forget the first, awakening smile that on its bosom fell P

Did Israel's exil'd sons, when far from Zion's hill away, Forget the high and holy house where first they learn'd

to pray ? Forget around their temple's wreck to roam in mute

despair, And o'er its hallow'd ashes pour a grief that none might

share ?

Remember thee ? Remember ^thee ? though many a

year hath fled Since o'er thy pillow, cold and low, the uprooted turf was

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