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YOUTH,

OR

SCENES FROM THE PAST:

A SERIES OF POEMS.

It is the voice of years that are gone!
They roll before me, with all their deeds!

OSSIAN.

DEDICATION

TO THE

HON. FRANCIS C. GRAY.

Classmate and FRIEND! if haply, in these lays,
Thine eye discern the forms that yet remain
Of years long past, — youth's pleasure and its pain,
Its hopes, fears, studies, thine applause repays
Largely the poet's labour: so he gain

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Thy kind approval of his humble strain,
He heeds not, then, the cold indifferent gaze
Of distant strangers. Feelings that outlive
Long absence, toil, and strife, mid haunts of men,
Still to this breast their youthful ardour give,
By time unchanged. Accept his offering then,
Who seeks not now vain blazon of renown;

So health be his and leisure, book and pen,

And friendship's generous wreath his brows to crown.

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