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My father, though no more, thine ear Censure or praise of mine can hear, It soothes me to embalm thy name With all my hope, my pride, my fame, Treasures of Fancy's fairy hall,— Thy name most precious far of all.

My page is wet with bitter tears,— I cannot but think of those years When happiness and I would wait On summer evenings by the gate, And keep o'er the green fields our watch The first sound of thy step to catch, Then run for the first kiss, and word,— An unkind one I never heard. But these are pleasant memories, And later years have none like these: