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POEMS,

CHIEFLY LYRICAL,

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY

GEORGE H. STRUTT.

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory-

Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;

And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

P. B. Shelley.

And Memory, too, with her dreams shall come,
Dreams of a former, happier day,

When Heaven was still the Spirit's home,
And her wings had not yet fallen away.

Glimpses of glory, ne'er forgot,

That tell like gleams on a sunset sea,
What once hath been, what now is not,
But oh! what again shall brightly be.

Moore's 'Epicurean,

Printed for private circulation only,

BY

JOSEPH PEGG, MARKET-PLACE, BELPER.

1866.

1 3 APR 1981

LIBRARY

TO THE

REV. JOHN GRIFFITH,

HEAD MASTER OF BRIGHTON COLLEGE,

This Volume of Poems is affectionately dedicated by his former Pupil and present Friend

THE COMPILER.

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Let's take this world as some wide scene

The Boatman (Extracts from)

Before the beginning of Years

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Oh Time, oh ever conquering Time..

This world is all a fleeting show

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