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! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!

For mighty were the Auxiliars, which then stood

Upon our side, we who were strong in love!

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very heaven!—Oh! times,

In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways

Of custom, law, and statute, took at once

The attraction of a country in Romance!

When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights,

When most intent on making of herself