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Now is the time of your flowery rites, Gone by with its dances and young delights: From your marble urns ye have burst away, From your chapel-cells to the laughing day; Low lie your altars with moss o'ergrown, —And the woods again are lone.

Yet holy still be your living springs, Haunts of all gentle and gladsome things! Holy, to converse with nature's lore, That gives the worn spirit its youth once more, And to silent thoughts of the love divine, Making the heart a shrine!