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102 Once I dwelt apart,

Now I live with all;

As shepherd's lamp on far hill-side

Seems, by the traveller espied,

A door into the mountain heart,

So didst thou quarry and unlock

Highways for me through the rock.

Now, deceived, thou wanderest

In strange lands unblest;

And my kindred come to soothe me.

Southwind is my next of blood;

He is come through fragrant wood,

Drugged with spice from climates warm,

And in every twinkling glade,

And twilight nook,

Unveils thy form.

Out of the forest way

Forth paced it yesterday;

And when I sat by the watercourse,

Watching the daylight fade,

It throbbed up from the brook.

River and rose and crag and bird,

Frost and sun and eldest night,

To me their aid preferred,

To me their comfort plight;—

Courage! we are thine allies,

And with this hint be wise,—