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Yet chase away each vain regret,
And let each heart be gay;

Trust me, the meeting hour shall yet
Each anxious thought repay.

Is not his spirit with us now?

Yes! wheresoe'er his footsteps roam, The wanderer's yearning heart can know No resting-place-but home!

Then smile again, and let the song

Pour forth its music sweet and clearWhat magic to those notes belong Which thus chain every ear!

Soft eyes are filled with tears-what spell So suddenly hath called them there? That strain-ah, yes! we know it well; It is his favourite air.

With every note how forcibly

Return the thoughts of other days!
The shaded brow, the drooping eye,
Are present to our gaze.

With all around his looks are blent;
His form, is it not gliding there?
And was it not his voice which sent
That echo on the air?

One wish, with cordial feeling fraught Breathe we for him ere yet we part, That for each high and generous thought That animates his heart,

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840,
By LINEN AND FENNELL,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

Stereotyped by
RICHARD C. VALENTINE,

45 Gold-street.

TO

DR. J. K. MITCHELL,

OF PHILADELPHIA,

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND,

THE EDITOR.

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