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 The youthful sufferer at the winding arbor A radiant kindly hand doth now caress, For new-wrought song a faith he still doth harbor, His eye explores the azure endlessness,

Where ships with lofty scutcheons decked are sailing, Where others, sleeping helpless, hug the beach And far where clouds their shining banks are trailing His fairyland of dreams he fain would reach.

His loved ones’ eyes are gazing fixed in tears: Shy hath he to the gift divine laid claim Dewed only as the parting. sorrow nears, Reft of complaint, and mindless of his fame.

Ye proud stately halls, so gorgeously dighted, Know ye not this, what beneath you there be— By scenes at the shore the lord’s not delighted As by those that beam in the lap of the sea.

Of houses and courts he alone the deviser 'Neath the feet of the beings imprecated, Unexampled the crest of the geyser And grottoes in radiant exub'rance created.