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Oh! the strife of this divided being! Is there peace where ye are borne on high? Could we soar to your proud eyeries fleeing, In our hearts would haunting memories die?

Those wild places are not as a dwelling Whence the footsteps of the loved are gone! Never from those rocky halls came swelling Voice of kindness in familiar tone!

Surely music of oblivion sweepeth In the pathway of your wanderings free; And the torrent, wildly as it leapeth, Sings of no lost home amidst its glee.

There the rushing of the falcon's pinion, Is not from some hidden pang to fly; All things breathe of power and stern dominion— Not of hearts that in vain yearnings die.