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 24 SONGS, AIqD As some lone lamp's'refulgent ray. Amid the darkness brightly. g}ows, And, 1os maid the beams of'day, Around, a sickly. radiance throws, To every gazer's eye rev. el'd, Love feebly wavers--soon.expire., But, deep within the hert-coneal'd, Like mine, it buros with quenchless WITH 'A WREATH' OF MYRTL ' Go, emblem of unfading love,' Around my Julia's forehead twine Tell her, thy constancy shall prove A never-failing pledge of mine: As, 'mid Decemher's eheerle gioom Thy smiling blossoms fragrance shed, Unblighted, shall affection bloom, When' all beside is cold an'd dead.

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