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 334 SONNRTSo XL, DESPONDENCY. MOMENTS of utter gloom, more frequent now Ye cloud a heart, that knew you from it's birth; Of has your darimebs quench'd e blaze of mii, 'And ev'n o'er most auspicious hours would t!ow It's maude of unutterable woe, While my heart pined in wild mysterious dearth Of all, that is cail'd happiness on earth; With nought to hope, and none to love, below. Oh, was it not the dim, prelusive shade, Which, ere it's full eclipse, Hope's planet loMw; Misfortune's giant shadow, far display'd, Ere the.gaunt speCtre Stole, himself, to view ? The coming stornr's prophetic lurid hue, Ere lightning blasted all the destined glade ?

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