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This is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. Idols worshipped both in age and youth;
Soul-destroying, blinding us to truth.
All unreal dreams that fade and perish,
Airy phantoms that we blindly cherish,
All the brilliance of the earthly toy
Is not gold, but dross and foul alloy.
Earth-born idols, lovely but in seeming,
On Love's holy shrine we place them dreaming,
Through the far-off vapours, dense and dark,
'Mid the angry waves, the storm-beat bark.
So our earthly idols, vain, deceiving,
Fill us with false hopes, forsake us, leaving
From earth's sceptres lift our yearning sigh
That shall be ours when we have gained the high.
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Patience hath her crown--eternal gladness--
IN WINTER DAYS.
Now are flown-
Balmy twilights--all are gone!
Hope's bright visions, carmine-tinted,
Dreams that mocked us in the sunlight
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Safely thro' the Winter hours;
But the sad winds round me sighing
She hath treasures in her bosom
Worse than vain,
Ne'er can bring to me again!
Slow lingering months with swifter pace move on--
This cloud athwart the sky of summer thrown--
Those talks and rambled when the day was done
And I am left in sadness here alone!
Parted! Oh, me, he is for ever gone!
How far off seem those joys we both have known,
When all its sunny hours seemed past and o'er,
Like some sere leaf he fell, to rise no more.
The spring shall come, and leaves grow green again,
Sunshine and flowers shall deck the hill and plane,
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