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long, oh, my faithful companion and guide! Thou hast wafted o'er deserts my car! How oft, oh, my rein-deer! thy speed has been tried, O'er mountains unknown and afar!

But thy youth is departed, thy fire is no more. And thy limbs all their vigor have lost; For age steals upon thee, relentless and hoar, And colder than winter his frost!

When friendship, or pleasure, invited away, Thou hast borne me o'er valleys and plains; Untir'd with the dangers, the toils of the day, While the road was beguil'd by my strains!