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Return, my thoughts, return! Cares wait your presence in life's daily track, And voices, not of music, call you back— Harsh voices, cold and stern!

Oh! no, return ye not! Still farther, loftier, let your soarings be! Go, bring me strength from journeyings bright and free, O'er many a haunted spot.

Go, seek the martyr's grave, Midst the old mountains, and the deserts vast; Or, through the ruin'd cities of the past, Follow the wise and brave!

Go, visit cell and shrine! Where woman hath endured!—through wrong, through scorn, Uncheer'd by fame, yet silently upborne By promptings more divine!