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The power to gather from the crew

Of vulgar thought, their hoard ?—the boast
To be apart from earth ?--above

Earth's tribes, and in themselves contain
(Minioned to none) hope--commune-love---
The source of pleasure and of pain?

Shall they find this? Or shall they rue
Too late, what Liberty hath cost—
The All that careless childhood knew,
And pining Manhood lost?

Ah! could we dream, when once possest
Of one devoted tender breast,
How chang'd-how desolate and drear
Without it, would the world appear ;--
With what a different watch and ward
We should the lonely treasure guard!
How breathlessly-how deeply prize
What life-once lost-no more supplies!

The Twins are left-the leach's fiat,
Unbroken loneliness and quiet:
Oh! what a weary knoll that phrase

To Thee condemned in pain to pine,

And watch the all-else-rejoicing rays

That through thy darkened casements shine! To count the moments creep-how slowly! To see the Insect on the wing;

In the glad air and sunlight holy,

To hear the merry throstle sing! To mark, without, all Earth o'erflow

With lusty life, exulting, flushing! Then turn within thy heart, and know The Golden Fountain from thee gushing.

Ev'n as a stream whose water strays
To some new channel gliding nigh,
And, drop by drop, the spring decays
Until its very heart be dry!

While o'er it fall the same sweet dews,
While round it creeps the same soft air,
Earth in the same delicious hues,

And life-as if thy life—were there!

END OF CHAPTER II. BOOK IV.

BOOK THE FOURTH.

CHAPTER III.

ARGUMENT.

Chang's soliloquy-His joy-His return homeward-The lovers-Their conversation-The alarm, and the interruption-The disappearance of one of the personages of the poem-Two letters---The fulfilment of a prophecy---The Author's advice to a certain person, and Conclusion.

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