OFTEN rebuked, yet always back returning
To those first feelings that were b
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OH, thy bright eyes must answer now,
When Reason, with a scornful brow,
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Hope was but a timid friend-
She sat without my grated den
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The day is done, the winter sun
Is setting in its sullen sky;
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Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn;
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A little while, a little while,
The weary task is put away,
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On a sunny brae alone I lay
One summer afternoon;
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THE linnet in the rocky dells,
The moor-lark in the air,
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O, thy bright eyes must answer now,
When Reason, with a scornful brow,
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Often rebuked, yet always back returning
To those first feelings that were born with me,
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The sun has set, and the long grass now
Waves dreamily in the evening wind;
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee,
Thou lonely dreamer now?
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If grief for grief can touch thee,
If answering woe for woe,
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'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
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High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending,
Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars,
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Come hither, child--who gifted thee
With power to touch that string so well?
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Mild the mist upon the hill
Telling not of storms tomorrow;
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Well hast thou spoken, and yet, not taught
A feeling strange or new;
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Ah! why, because the dazzling sun
Restored our Earth to joy,
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THE night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
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It was a little budding rose,
Round like a fairy globe,
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I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me,
There's nothing lovely here;
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Ladybird! Ladybird! Fly away home, Night is approaching, and sunset is come:
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COLD in the earth--and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave!
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STILL let my tyrants know, I am not doom'd to wear
Year after year in gloom and desolate despair;
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The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
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Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree --
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A LITTLE while, a little while,
The noisy crowd are barred away;
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'TIS moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
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Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:
One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep,
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